# Chapter 7. Detailed Guides: Editing your Document

This section of the guide will cover more advanced features of data editing. This section focuses entirely on text data. For working with other types of data, please see the next section.

# 7.1. Selecting Text

For many editing and formatting functions in KWord, you will want to perform a certain action (bold face, underline, etc) to a certain section of text, not the document as a whole. You specify which text you want by selecting (highlighting) text.

Selected text has a black background to seperate it from unselected text. You select text by designating a start and an end point. All the ttext in between the start and end point is selected text. (Note: The "endpoint" can be located before the start point. The text will not be reversed.)

You can select text with either the mouse or the keyboard.

## 7.1.1. Using The Keyboard

Shift-Left Arrow | Move selection one character to the left.
Shift-Right Arrow | Move selection one character to the Right.
Shift-Up Arrow | Selects all characters from the start of the selection, to the character directly up one line.
Shift-Down Arrow | Selects all characters from the start of the selection, to the character directly down one line.
Shift-Home | Selects all characters from the start of the selection, to the beginning of the line.
Shift-End | Selects all characters from the start of the selection, to the end of the line.

## 7.1.2. Using The Mouse

To select text with the mouse, hold down the left mouse button and drag the cursor. This selects all text between the initial click of the mouse button and the current position of the mouse cursor. When you release the mouse button, the start and endpoints will become fixed.