Selecting Text
After you get text into your Dreamweaver document, you’ll undoubtedly need to edit it. You’ll delete words and paragraphs, move sentences around, add words, and fix typos.
The first step in any of these procedures is learning how to select text, which works much as it does in word processors. You drag your cursor across text to highlight it, or just click where you wish the selection to begin, and then hold down the Shift key as you click at the end of the selection. You can also use shortcuts like these:
To select a word, double-click it.
To select a paragraph, triple-click anywhere in it.
To select a line of text, move your cursor to the left of the line of text until the cursor changes from an I-beam to an arrow, signaling that you’ve reached the left-margin selection strip. Click once to highlight one line of text, or drag vertically in this selection strip to select multiple lines.
While pressing Shift, use the left and right arrow keys to select one letter at a time. Use Ctrl+Shift (⌘-Shift) and the left and right arrow keys to select one word at a time.
Ctrl+A (⌘-A) selects everything in the body of a page—text, graphics, and all. (Well, this isn’t 100 percent true: If you use tables or <div> tags [Float Layout Basics] to organize a page, then Ctrl+A may select just the text within a table cell or <div> tag; clicking the <body> tag in the Tag selector [The Insert Panel] is a more sure-fire method of selecting everything on a page.)
Once you selected text, you can ...
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