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Here's how to use Select All on an iPhone or iPad to copy, paste, delete, and AutoFill text and more in a few easy taps. Plus, the secret trick to using Select All when the touch-and-hold technique ...

While clicking and dragging is useful for selecting blocks of text, it can be cumbersome for finer selections, such as selecting individual characters or text that extends across multiple screens.

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

If you spend a lot of time in Microsoft Word (or any other word processor), it's high time you learned how to select text using only your keyboard. Why? Because it saves you having to reach for your ...

If you're constantly losing your place or having to start from nearly the beginning of text selection processes because your mouse twitches or your cursor gets away from you, stop getting "dragged" ...

Depending upon the font size of a document and your hand-eye coordination, it can be difficult to position the mouse cursor exactly where you want it when selecting text. Here's how to quickly select ...

The new version of the text magnifier seems to be a bit smaller than the old one (in case you’ve forgotten what it used to look like, you can see a great demonstration here), but it’s at least better ...

Nathan is a tech journalist from Canada who spends too much money on gadgets. You can find his work on Android Police, Digital Trends, iMore, Mobile Syrup and ZDNET. Nathan studied journalism at ...

Word 2007 includes many powerful tools for creating unique documents using much more than simple text customization. If you use images in your Word documents, you have a number of options for how they ...