Selecting Text: Text can be selected using the mouse or the keyboard. Selecting Text using the mouse:

To select text using a mouse, follow these steps :

1. Place the Insertion point to the left of the first character to be selected. 

2. Press the left mouse button and drag the mouse to a position where you want to stop selecting. 

3. Release the mouse button. 

4. The selected text gets highlighted.

To Select Press: 

1. A Word Double-click with I-beam 

2. A Paragraph Triple-click with I-beam

Selecting Text using the Keyboard: 

To select text using a keyboard, follow these steps :

1. Place the Insertion point to the left of the first character you wish to select. 

2. The Shift key is pressed down and the movement keys are used to highlight the required text. 

3. When the Shift key is released, the text is selected.

To Select – Press 

One character to the left – Shift + ←

One character to the right – Shift + →

One line up – Shift + ↑

One line down – Shift + ↓

To the end of the current line – Shift +End

To the beginning of the current line – Shift + Home, 

Entire Document – Ctrl + A