Chapter 6
Blocks o’ Text
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding blocks of text
Marking a block with the keyboard
Selecting text with the mouse
Using the F8 key to mark text
Unblocking text
Copying and moving blocks of text
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
“Hello, Mr. Block! What do you do?”
“Well! I’m a block of text. I have a beginning and an end. I can be any size, from a single character to the entire document.”
To create Mr. Block in a document, you select text. You can use the keyboard. ...
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