Shortcuts
The New York Times listed these helpful shortcuts:
Highlight a whole sentence by
double-clicking anywhere inside the sentence while pressing the Ctrl
key.
Highlight a whole paragraph by positioning
your cursor to the left of the target paragraph in a narrow area in
which it becomes invisible. You’ll know your cursor is there when it
turns into an arrow that points to the right. Once there, a
double-click selects the entire paragraph at the right. Click three
times to select the whole document.
Go back to the last place you clicked, which
usually means the last place you edited—even if it was in another
open document —by evoking the Ctrl+Alt+Z keystrokes. Each time you
use the Go Back command, your insertion point alternately jumps
among four places—the last three edited spots and your current
position.
Delete the last word with Ctrl+Backspace.
Oops
The Excel AutoSum shortcut item in the August 2001 issue gave the wrong keystrokes. They should be Alt+=.
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