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5 SELECTING TEXT
A selection is a block of characters that are highlighted on the screen. Figure 5-1 shows how a selection appears on the screen. You usually select text to indicate where you want to apply a conunand.
A selection can consist of one or more characters, spaces, words, columns, lines, paragraphs, pages, or an entire document. You can also select formatting symbols, such as the paragraph symbol.
Only one selection can exist at a time.
A selection can be used to apply a conunand to a wider area of text than the command applies to by
default, or to limit a conunand to a smaller area.
For instance, the Replace conunand (SHIFT-f6) can be limited to only one paragraph by selecting that paragraph before you give the conunand. Note that your cursor must be within the selection to specify that a command be applied to that selection.
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Selections are also made by the Word Processor when some commands are executed. For instance, when you us e the Search command ( f6 ) , i t optionally highlights the first place in text where it finds the characters for which i t was searching. You can treat this type of selection the same way you would if you made i t yourself.
MAKING A SELECTION
Selections are made with these Mark keys: MARK, f8 (MARK WORD), CODE- f8 (MARK PAGE), f9 (MARK LINE), CODE-f9 (MARK COLUMN), f10 (MARK PARA), CODE-f10 (MARK DOC).
Each Mark command selects and highlights a different unit of text. To select any such unit of text, simply place the cursor there and press the appropriate Mark key or key combination.
If you press the key again, the selection moves to the next unit of text. For example, pressing f9 (MARK LINE) highlights a line, and pressing i t again moves the highlight to the next line.
If the cursor is in void space, the unit of text preceding the void space is selected.
Note that Mark Page and additional feature of a Mark when you use the selection to that allows you to include footnote text.
Mark Doc have the menu, displayed only make a format change header, footer, or Table 5-1 lists the seven mark keys and shows the text they select.
EXTENDING A SELECTION
Any existing selection, except one made using the Mark Document command, can be extended by pressing BOUND.
Use BOUND to extend any selection forward by one unit of text. This command extends the highlight to include the original selection and the next character, word, line, paragraph, or page. It also moves the cursor to the beginning of the next unit of text. Press BOUND again to continue to extend the selection.
Table 5-1. Mark Keys.
Mark Key Selection
MARK The character or space that contains the cursor.
f8 (MARK WORD) The word containing the
cursor. Spaces between words, numerals, and punctuation marks are considered to be words.
CODE-f8 (MARK PAGE)
f9 (MARK LINE)
CODE-f9 (MARK COLUMN)
f10 (MARK PARA)
CODE-f10 (MARK DOC)
The text and the page break for the page containing the cursor. When some format changes are applied to a
selection made with Mark Page, the Mark menu is displayed for you to specify inclusion of headers, footers, and/or
footnotes.
The line containing the cursor. Also selects any formatting symbols on that line, such as the paragraph symbol.
The tabbed column that con-tains the cursor, or that is nearest to the cursor. May mark a column in more than one adjacent paragraph if the col-umn carries over. (Does not mark serpentine or synchro-nized columns. See Section 10,
"Entering Text in Columns. ") The text in the paragraph containing the cursor and the associated paragraph symbol.
The entire document. Only one document can be selected. Uses Mark menu as does Mark Page.
You can extend a selection to include more text at one time by moving the cursor to the unit of text you want to act as a boundary for the selection and pressing BOUND. Again, the extension is made in the unit of text that was used to make the original selection. For example, if you make a selection using Mark Word (f8), move the cursor to the beginning of the last word you want to include in the selection, and press BOUND: the entire word where you have your cursor is highlighted. The cursor stays where i t was when you pressed BOUND.
Boundaries can be defined either in front of or after the original selection.
SHRINKING A SELECTION
If you want to reduce an existing selection that was extended with BOUND, just position the cursor where you want the boundary and press BOUND again.
If, however, you make a choosing a Mark command than you need, you must selects a smaller unit selection.
DESELECTING TEXT
selection too large by that selects more text use a Mark command that of text to reduce the
A highlight that shows that text is selected can be returned to normal by pressing CODE-MARK. The cursor does not have to be within the selection to deselect text.
When you remove the highlight, the selection has no further effect.
HOW A SELECTION WORKS WITH A COMMAND
A selection is usually used to indicate the text to which a command is applied. However, selections are not always necessary. You only need to make a selection when you want to apply the command to text that is not the default unit.
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Some commands apply format attributes to characters, some apply them to paragraphs, and some apply them to pages. For formatting applied to characters, the command defaults to the next
character you type, in effect, to the cursor. For paragraph and page formats, the command defaults to the appropriate unit of text within which you have placed your cursor.
Remember, however, that to apply a command to a selection, the cursor must be either wi thin the selection or in the command form when the command is executed. Otherwise, the command defaults to the position where you have your cursor.
EXAMPLES
Boldface text is a character attribute. It is applied to the next character you type.
Therefore, if you want to start typing in boldface, no selection is necessary. However, to make existing characters boldface, you make a
selection to indicate which characters are to be bold.
Paragraph line spacing is a paragraph attribute.
When you specify line spacing using the Format command, the spacing defaults to the paragraph wi thin which you have your cursor, but you can select several paragraphs to apply the same spacing to them all.
Table 5-2. Selection Hints.
If you want to select •.•
Several paragraphs
Several paragraphs while retaining the present horizontal cursor position
Last part of a paragraph
Remainder of text on line
A column of tabbed text
Remove any selection
Then •••
Press f10 (MARK PARAGRAPH) and press BOUND repeatedly until all paragraphs are selected.
Press f10 (MARK PARAGRAPH). Then move the cursor vertically down to the last paragraph and press BOUND.
Press MARK at the first character, move the cursor anywhere in the void space below the paragraph, and press BOUND.
Press MARK at the first character, Press CODE-right arrow, then press BOUND.
Use CODE-f9 (MARK COLUMN) . Note that this only works if text is entered using tabbed columns.
(See Section 9,
"Using Tabs.") Use CODE-MARK.