There are dozens of ways to select or highlight your text in Word's 2007. Many are helpful shortcuts that can save you time. I'll go ahead and give you and example, but then I encourage you that if you like my example and find it useful to please purchase the Word 2007 online training video for more helpful selecting tips and tools. To select a line of text by only using the mouse: move your mouse to the left margin of your document until you see your "pointer" turn into the document and click, or click and drag to select line-by-line! Yeah, now if you like that shortcut then like a eager waiter may I recommend you try the full course and watch our Word 2007 online training videos!

Okay, I'll give you one more shortcut, and save the best for the videos... You can select text by using your arrow keys on the keyboard along with holding down the Shift key. Okay, so maybe that's not a secret, but how about when you hold down Ctrl+Shift+arrow key? Did you notice that instead of selecting your text letter-by-letter, with the Ctrl key down you can now select Word by Word? Hot dog! See Selecting Text in action!