Let’s see how: How to select all words in Word using the mouse or touchpad One of the fastest methods to select your text in the Word document is to use the mouse or the touchpad.

This tutorial explains how to delete a text vertically in a Word document or Excel spreadsheet without deleting all the text horizontally.

Dragging a mouse to select text in Microsoft Word requires the precision of a diamond cutter, or seems to, anyway. I prefer to press the Ctrl, Shift, and arrow keys to make my text selections.

Clicking and dragging is a perfectly good way to select text, but there are others, possibly better, ways to go about it.

If you spend a lot of time in Microsoft Word (or any other word processor), it's high time you learned how to select text using only your keyboard. Why? Because it saves you having to reach for ...