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Chapter 1: The Two-Dollar Tour
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Click where you want to start and then hold down
Shift as you press the arrow keys to extend the
selection.
When text is selected, its background changes color. The color depends
on the color scheme in use; with the default color scheme, selected
text is blue.
In Excel, you usually want to select entire cells rather than individual
bits of text; when the cell is selected, any formatting or other com-
mands that you issue applies to everything in that cell. To select a cell,
click it. You can extend the selection to multiple cells by dragging
across them or by holding down Shift and pressing the arrow keys.
You can also select text by using keyboard shortcuts.
Chapter 4 lists shortcuts for Word, Chapter 7 lists
shortcuts for Excel, and Chapter 14 lists shortcuts for
PowerPoint.
To select a graphic, click it with the mouse. Selection handles appear
around the outside of it. Depending on the graphic type, these handles
are blue circles or black squares. Figure 1-14 shows a selected graphic
in Word.
Selection handles
Figure 1-14
When a graphic is selected, you can do any of the following to it:
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Move it. Position the mouse pointer on the graphic
(not on the border) and drag.
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