Long-time lurker here. I had to jump in to say that on a PC it's perfectly possible to select text in Word (and many other programs) using combinations of the Ctr and Shift keys and the Home and End keys and the left- and right-arrows.
eg, Move cursor to where you want to start. To select to the end of the line, just hold the Shift key and hit End. Voila! Shift-Ctrl-End will select to the end of the document, etc. My experience with Macs has however been a bit different, although I understand you can get software which will emulate this behaviour. I try to use the mouse as little as possible and these short cuts allow for this. Hope this helps - cheers Frank 2009/6/27 John Howell <john.how...@vt.edu> > At 1:53 AM +0100 6/27/09, Owain Sutton wrote: > >> >> Measuring 'numbers of clicks' isn't a good way of rating productivity, >> however - I very rarely resort to the mouse to make such changes, in Word or >> in OpenOffice. >> > > Hi, Owain. This puzzles me. To change text formatting in Word, you first > have to select the text you want to change, right? That's a double click > (or more than one, or a sweep, but still it's done with the mouse). After > that, sure, I know the usual keyboard shortcuts in Word and use them all the > time, but you can't get completely away from the mouse. > > John > > > -- > John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music > Virginia Tech Department of Music > College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences > Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 > Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 > (mailto:john.how...@vt.edu) > http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html > > "We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition > of jazz musicians. > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
