Control A highlights the entire document. If you want to highlight from a certain point until the end of document control shift End key in the six pack. Going a step further, if you want to extract a block of selected text from your document Control X. If you want to copy all the text, without extracting, control C. Good luck, Judith ----- Original Message ----- From: Jennifer Palmer To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 12:26 PM Subject: Re: highlighting depends if you want to highlight by line, shift down arrow. if you want to go by word control shift left or right arrow by character shift left or right arrow reasons i give the right and left is this if you want to highlight backward or need too, left arrow will do that right goes forward. hth Jennifer Palmer myspace is: http://www.myspace.com/lights_rage skype is: jennipalmer Yahoo instant messenger is: jenniferpalmer2000 aim is: lightsrage1985 website is: http://jenny_15.livejournal.com msn is: lights-rage@xxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: Andy Culmer To: jfw list Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 10:20 AM Subject: highlighting What key command do I use to highlight an item or a group of items? culmerandy@xxxxxxxxxxx