Robin Williams Mac OS X Book, Jaguar Edition, The

Selecting (Highlighting) Text

When you select text, it becomes highlighted. Once it is selected, you can do things to it, such as change its size, the typeface, delete it, etc.

If you take the I-beam and double-click on a word anywhere on the Mac, the entire word is selected, indicated by the highlighting.

This word is highlighted. I double-clicked on the word to select it.

To select more than one word, press-and-drag over the entire area you wish to highlight. The entire sentence is highlighted.

To select all of the text in an entire document, use the keyboard shortcut Command A.

To un-highlight (deselect) text, click once anywhere, even in the highlighted space.

Practice: In the paragraph you typed earlier, use the I-beam to double-click on ...