Scroll Wheel
On a computer mouse you will find a middle scroll wheel.
Click three times (Triple‐click); it will select the paragraph.
Click and Drag (don’t let go of the mouse) it will select text, from where you first clicked to where you let go of the mouse button.
On a computer mouse you will find a middle scroll wheel.
When your mouse is hovering over the ribbon at the top of the window, Microsoft Word will scroll through the different tabs.
When your mouse is hovering over the document, it will scroll through the pages.
As with the Scroll Bar, this will only move the pages, not the cursor.
If you hold down the CTRL key while using the scroll wheel, Microsoft Word will zoom in and out.
Clicking Inside Text
Click once (Single Click); Microsoft Word will move the cursor to where you clicked.
If you hold the SHIFT key when you click, it will select the text from where the cursor was blinking to where you clicked.
If you hold the CTRL key when you click, it will select the sentence you clicked on. This will not work if there is a current selection. Once a selection is made, you can use the CTRL key to add to the selection.
Click twice (Double‐click); it will select the word.
If you hold down the CTRL key while using the scroll wheel, Microsoft Word will zoom in and out.
Clicking Inside Text
Click once (Single Click); Microsoft Word will move the cursor to where you clicked.
If you hold the SHIFT key when you click, it will select the text from where the cursor was blinking to where you clicked.
If you hold the CTRL key when you click, it will select the sentence you clicked on. This will not work if there is a current selection. Once a selection is made, you can use the CTRL key to add to the selection.
Click twice (Double‐click); it will select the word.
Click three times (Triple‐click); it will select the paragraph.
Click and Drag (don’t let go of the mouse) it will select text, from where you first clicked to where you let go of the mouse button.
Click and Drag a selection, will move the text to where you let go.
Clicking Outside Text
If you move your mouse out into the left margin so that the mouse cursor turns into a white arrow that points back at the text and you:
Click once (Single Click); it will select the line
Click twice (Double‐click); it will select the paragraph
Click three times (Triple Click); it will select the whole document (Same Ctrl‐A)
Clicking Outside Text
If you move your mouse out into the left margin so that the mouse cursor turns into a white arrow that points back at the text and you:
Click once (Single Click); it will select the line
Click twice (Double‐click); it will select the paragraph
Click three times (Triple Click); it will select the whole document (Same Ctrl‐A)
