Basic EditingShow and Hide formatting Marks

Select TextCreate paragraphs without blank space between them

Undo, redo, and repeat recent actionsMove and copy text using drag and drop and the clipboard

Use the Office ClipboardFind and replace text, and use the Go to command

Identify the number of words in a document or a selection

Turning and command on and off is know as Toggling

Show Formatting Marks

Toggling

Highlight a block of text. Can be one character or a whole

document

Select Text

Hold down the left button on the mouse, drag the pointer to where you want to drop it off and release the mouse.

Dragging

Changes its appearance. Line and Paragraph Spacing

Format

These will let you undo whatever you just did, redo what ever you undid, and repeat what ever you did before.

In the Quick Access Tool Bar

Undo, Redo, and Repeat Commands

Select text, position the pointer on tap of the selected text, and then drag selected text to the new location.

If you want to copy it and do that hold the “ctrl” button down and drag it.

Drag and Drop to Move and Copy Text

A temporary storage in the computers memory.

Stores – Cut and Copied Items Cut: selected text is removed from

document and put on clipboard Copy: selected text is copied and placed

on the clipboard. Paste: text is taken from the clipboard

and put into the document

Clipboard, Cut, Copy and Paste

A special clipboard on which you can collect up to 24 selections and use between Microsoft Office Programs.

Office Clipboard

Find will help you locate certain text in a document

Find and Replace will find text and replace with something different

Go To will take you to a certain area of a document.

Go to, Find and Replace

Word count is in status bar and will tell you how many words, paragraphs, and characters there are in a document.

Number of Words in Document