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opportunities for a better life the
foundation of text and Word is simple
just click on your document and type you
can use the spacebar on your keyboard to
add spaces and if you want to start a
new line just press Enter if you make a
mistake like I did that's okay you can
press backspace or delete to fix it you
can also use your keyboards arrow keys
to move the insertion point up down left
or right this is useful if you only need
to move a few spaces or lines at a time
but you can also jump over entire words
at a time hold the ctrl key and press
the left or right arrow keys to jump
over one word at a time there may come a
time when you need to work with text in
your document maybe to copy and paste it
or to move it to a different location to
do that you need to know how to select
text first the text I'd like to select
is the business name h2o you can see it
here at the top of the list just click
hold and drag your mouse over the text
then let go see how it's highlighted
gray that means the text is selected
this little box is the hover toolbar
which gives you easy access to
formatting options like font color size
and more there's actually more than one
way to select text you can use the
method I just showed you or you can move
the cursor to the left of your text
until it becomes a right slanted arrow
if you position the arrow to the left of
the line that you want to highlight and
click once you'll select that line of
text you can click and drag up or down
to select as many lines as you want to
select all the lines in an entire file
go to the Select command on the Home tab
and choose select all pressing the
control key and a key on your keyboard
at the same time we'll also select all
the text now that we know how to select
text
let's try copy and paste just click the
copy command on the ribbon choose where
you want
texts ago then click paste you can also
get to these commands by right-clicking
in the document for example to cut and
paste start by selecting your text then
right-click and choose cut the original
text will disappear and now we can paste
it anywhere we want by right-clicking
again paste options determine how the
text is going to look ranging from
exactly like the original to the same
text but without any formatting I'm
going to keep the formatting because I
like the way it looks with each item on
the list if you want to move a selection
of text from one place to another
you can use the drag and drop method
let's skip to the bottom of the document
so I can show you how it works first
select the text you want to move
now click hold and drag where you want
it to go
you may need to do some rearranging to
make sure it ends up the way you want if
you make mistake or change your mind you
can use the undo button on the toolbar
to undo the last action to the right is
the redo button this allows you to
reverse the last undo and here's a tip
if you ever need an unusual symbol in
one of your documents for example a
copyright symbol I actually need to add
a trademark symbol after the company
slogan all you have to do is go to the
insert tab then click the symbol command
and find the symbol you need now you
know the basics including cut copy and
paste drag and drop undo and redo
everything you need to work with text in
Word