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Chapter 4 Editing and Formatting Text
In Word (and in Outlook when using Word as the e-mail editor), you can select noncon-
tiguous characters—that is, characters that are not next to each other—by holding down the
Ctrl and Shift keys simultaneously as you make your selections. (If you hold down Ctrl
when you click, your initial selection extends to a complete sentence.) In Excel you can
select noncontiguous cells the same way. In PowerPoint, you’re allowed to select noncon-
tiguous slides. But you can’t select noncontiguous text in Excel, PowerPoint, or Publisher,
or when using the built-in Outlook e-mail editor.
Finding and Replacing Text
When you ...