Efficiency Tip #95 – Ctrl-A

Looking back through these posts, I noticed I had not devoted a whole post to one of the more important shortcuts: Ctrl-A.

Ctrl-A is used to select everything on a page.  That page can be a web page, a Word document, a spreadsheet… any digital document.

The equivalent slow way of doing this involves using the mouse.  Click before the first word on the first page.  Now drag (don’t let up on the mouse button) past the last word of the last page.

Ctrl-A is usually followed with the copy command.  I have also used it when changing the format (font, size or color) of text.

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