Selecting and deleting text help please

2013-08-17 Thread Andy Collins
Hi all - So far I've figured out that hitting the backspace or delete key will remove character by character, and that CMD shift and delete will remove a line, as well as that shift and arrow keys will highlight text, but how do I select word by word to delete, or part of a sentence? Each time

Re: Selecting and deleting text. help please.

2013-08-17 Thread Artie!
We went over this in class at the Lighthouse this past week. We recorded the lesson on the VR stream, and I have to play it back, and I need to practice. We're using text,not pages. To get started, do Cmd + semi-colon. Then follow the prompts. Artie. From: Andy Collins

Re: Selecting and deleting text. help please.

2013-08-17 Thread Artie!
Actually we were doing Spell Check with the cmd+ semi colon. Artie. From: Artie! August 17, 2013 7:31 AM We went over this in class at the Lighthouse this past week. We recorded the lesson on the VR stream, and I have to play it back, and I need to practice. We're using text,not

Re: Selecting and deleting text. help please.

2013-08-17 Thread Andy Collins
What has this to do with my question? And as far as I know, it's CMD and shift with semi colon to check for spelling - Andy On 17 Aug 2013, at 12:31, Artie! anol...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: We went over this in class at the Lighthouse this past week. We recorded the

Re: Selecting and deleting text. help please.

2013-08-17 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi! Adding the option key so option+left arrow will go back word by word option +delete will remove word by word, and shift+option+arrow's will select or deselect word by word! And if you might like to know and you have the FN key adding that you can forward delete IE. FN+delete! will forward

Re: Selecting and deleting text. help please.

2013-08-17 Thread Andy Collins
Thank you - this is exactly what I was looking for. I'd tried different key combinations, but not that one including the option key - Andy On 17 Aug 2013, at 14:11, Red.Falcon velocity.focu...@virginmedia.com wrote: Hi! Adding the option key so option+left arrow will go back word by word

Re: Selecting and deleting text. help please.

2013-08-17 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Andy, Once text is selected, pressing Delete will delete all the selected text. You can also select text then either copy it with Cmd-c or Cut it with Cmd-x and paste it elsewhere with Cmd-v. As for spell checking, Cmd-Semicolon allows you to step through the document one misspelt word

Re: Selecting and deleting text. help please.

2013-08-17 Thread Andy Collins
Hi Anne - I was having problems selecting a single word, or couple of words to delete from the middle of a sentence. Yes, I could delete them character by character, but wanted to be able to simply select the whole word, or several words, and delete them. What was happening was that when I

Re: Selecting and deleting text. help please.

2013-08-17 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Try when checking for spalling vo shift m on the selection That will bring up a set of replacements. Then hit enter on the thingy. Tc. On Aug 17, 2013, at 11:47 AM, Andy Collins a...@recreation.plus.com wrote: Hi Anne - I was having problems selecting a single word, or couple of words to

Re: Selecting and deleting text. help please.

2013-08-17 Thread Andy Collins
Thanks Sarah - didn't know this was the way to do this - Andy On 17 Aug 2013, at 20:09, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote: Try when checking for spalling vo shift m on the selection That will bring up a set of replacements. Then hit enter on the thingy. Tc. On Aug 17, 2013, at