In the Windows, Mac or Linux version of TextMaker, you can select something as follows:
Selecting via the mouse
To select something via the mouse, proceed as follows:
▪Selecting text
| To select a section of text of any length, position the mouse cursor at the beginning of the section, press and hold down the left mouse button, and drag the cursor to the end of the desired section. |
| To select a word, double-click on the word. |
| To select a whole line, click in the left margin of that line. You can select multiple lines by dragging the mouse cursor up or down beside them in the left margin. |
| To select a whole paragraph, double-click in the left margin beside the paragraph. Also possible: Triple-click directly in the paragraph. |
| To select the whole document, press and hold the Ctrl key and click in the left margin (beside any paragraph of the document). (Mac users: Cmd key) |
| Alternatively, you can do the same with the ribbon command Home | Select all  . |
▪Selecting objects
| To select an object (for example, a picture, a drawing, etc.), simply click on it with the mouse. A frame will then appear around the object to indicate that it is now selected. |
| To select multiple objects, switch to object mode (see Object mode). |
Selecting via the keyboard
Alternatively, you can use the keyboard. To do so, proceed as follows:
▪Selecting text
| Move the text cursor to the beginning of the text you want to select. Press the Shift keyñ, hold it down, and then move the text cursor in any direction with the arrow keys. |
| For example, you can select the following: |
| a single character with Shift+ß or Shift+à |
| a single word with Ctrl+Shift+ß or Ctrl+Shift+à |
| (for Mac: Alt+Shift+ß or Alt+Shift+à) |
| whole pages with Shift+PageUpá or Shift+PageDownâ |
| To select the whole document, you can press the key combination Ctrl+Home, followed by the key combination Ctrl+Shift+End. |
| Alternatively, you can do the same with the ribbon command Home | Select all . |
▪Selecting objects
Objects can only be selected with the mouse (see above).
Selecting non-contiguous text sections
You can also select non-contiguous text parts with TextMaker (multiple selections of text). To do so, select a word, line, paragraph, or any section of text in your document using the methods described above.
While holding down the Ctrl key, you can then select another text element elsewhere in the document with the mouse.
(On a Mac, you have to use the Cmd key.)
If, for example, you want to select several words that are distributed non-contiguously in the text, proceed as follows:
| 1. | Select the first word you need – by double-clicking on it with the mouse, for example. |
| 2. | Press and hold down the Ctrl key. |
| 3. | Select the next word you need, which is located elsewhere in the text – by a single click on it with the mouse. |
| In this way, add more words (or text segments) to the selection as required. |
All the words on which you clicked are now selected across the board. You can format this selection as a unit or copy it, etc. If you want to remove a word from the selection, you can do so via a single mouse click on the relevant word.