Mouse cursor movement

Point and Click the mouse at any position in the text.

The mouse and cursor pointer are co-incidental.

Slide the mouse pointer away.

The text pointer remains in place.

Clicking the mouse establishes the position of the text cursor.

Mouse Click

With the mouse pointer on the main menu word "File", and still grasping the mouse, tap the left button of the mouse.

The drop-down File menu should appear, as if you had used Alt-File.

With the mouse pointer on the word "File", and still grasping the mouse, tap the left button of the mouse to remove the File menu. (You could as easily let go of the mouse and tap the keyboard ESCape key!).

Keyboard Text Selection

The cursor selection keys are an essential skill in text manipulation. Skills learned here will apply right across all versions of all Windows desktop applications.

Hold down the Shift key and use any of your movement skills to select text.

"S" for shift, "S" for selection.

Tap any cursor movement key to break the selection

Cursor movement breaks selection.