Microsoft Word Step by Step (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365)

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Enter and edit text

In this chapter

• Enter and import text

• Select, move, copy, and delete text

• Find and replace text

• Use reference and research tools

Word is a word-processing app designed primarily for working with text. This can be text that you enter yourself or text that you import from another file.

After you’ve entered or imported text into a document, you can select and edit the text as needed. For example, you can select a word, a sentence, a line, or a paragraph. You can select one of these elements at a time, or you can select several at the same time. These words, sentences, lines, or paragraphs can be adjacent (that is, next to each other in your document) or non-adjacent (that is, in different areas of the document). You can ...