Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated November 23, 2024)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, and Word in Microsoft 365
If you need to select the entire document, Word makes it easy using the keyboard—just press Ctrl+A. If you are using the mouse and you don't want to let it go to use the keyboard, you may wonder if there is a way to select it all using the mouse.
Well, sort of. This mouse-based method still relies on pressing a key in order to do the trick:
Another way to do this is to simply triple-click the left mouse button after step 1.
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