Welcome to a brand new feature in the CRYPT Magazine. Each Issue Computer Head will bring you a list of helpful tips and tricks to make your Computing life a little easier. Although the tip in this article will work in most Platforms or Software, It is impossible to check all various set ups, So give the tip a try on your Machine and see what happens.
Editing files/letters can be a tedious job, How often have you discovered errors or areas of text that you either want to remove or replace. Life can now be that little bit easier.
If you are using a mouse, there's a shortcut you can use to select an entire word. To do this, follow these two steps:
1. Using the mouse pointer, point to the word you want to select.
2. Double-click on the mouse.
If you want to select additional words, don't release the mouse button after the second click - just drag the mouse across them. You'll add one word at a time to your selection. Once the words are selected, you can do any other editing function on those words.
When you need to replace text in a document, the usual procedure is to select the text, press Delete (or Backspace), and then type in the new text. Here's a great shortcut:
You don't have to erase the text at all. All you have to do is start typing and your new text will automatically replace the selected text.
These techniques work in most programs.
Print Only Part of a Page
Most Windows programs allow you to print part of a document instead of the whole thing. To print part of a page, highlight the part you want to print by moving the mouse pointer to the beginning of the section, holding down the left mouse button, and moving the mouse to the end of the selection. Make sure it's still highlighted - the text will be white on a dark background.
Click on File to open the menu, click on Print, and choose Selection in the Page Range area of the dialog box. Click the OK or Print button.
In some programs, the Selection choice may not be in the first Print dialog box. In that case, look for a button that says Options. Click on it; you should find the Page Range area in the resulting dialog box. Click the OK or Print button.
Only the part of the document that you highlighted will print.
An alternative to using the Selection feature is to Copy and Paste the text in your word processing program, and then print from there.
To do this, highlight the text that you want to print. Click Edit on the menu, and then click Copy. Switch to your word processing program. Click Edit on the menu, and then click Paste. The highlighted text will appear in the word processing document.
Advantages to copying text into a word processing document: if you want to print two or more nonconsecutive areas of a document, you can copy each block of text into your word processing program, then only have to print the word processing document one time.
Special Note for AOL users: AOL currently has a bug in this feature where the text highlighting is removed by opening the Print dialog box. There is a very lengthy fix for this, but a simpler way would be to Copy and Paste the text you want to print into your word processing program, then print from there.
Happy Computing
