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Microsoft 365 Word For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Dan Gookin
February 2025
Beginner
400 pages
8h 54m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 6

Blocks o’ Text

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Understanding blocks of text

Bullet Marking a block with the keyboard

Bullet Selecting text with the mouse

Bullet Using the F8 key to mark text

Bullet Unblocking text

Bullet Copying and moving blocks of text

Bullet Pasting text in various ways

Writing is about blocks, from the moveable printing blocks used by the ancient Chinese to the universal writer’s block. In word processing, the word blocks refers to selected chunks of text in a document, which I believe you’ll find more useful to your productivity than the other types of blocks.

Meet Mr. Block

Mr. Block visits your document when you select text. He has a beginning and an end. He can be any size, from a single character to the entire document. Figure 6-1 shows a block of selected text in a document.

When a block of text is selected, ...

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