how do you select an entire section

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Chip Orange

Is there a way of selecting the entire current section (regardless of where
you're positioned within the section?) I've seen that repeated presses of
the f8 (extend selection key) seems to do this, but it's not clear at all to
the beginning user exactly how many times to press or what's going on
(especially when the current section spans multiple pages).

thanks.

Chip
 
Hi, Chip. Yes, f8 is the keyboard shortcut to select. If
you click it once, you'll simply turn on the selection
feature (meaning you could then arrow to where you wanted
the selection to end; it is similar to holding down the
mouse button).

Pressing f8 twice selects the nearest word.
Pressing f8 three times selects the sentence.
Pressing f8 four times selects the paragraph.
Pressing f8 five times selects the section.
Pressing f8 six times selects the whole document.

Good luck.

Brandon
 
thanks, but I'm looking for an alternate way to do this.

I am very dubious, when I have a section to be cut and pasted else-where,
that this is going to work reliably for my users. I don't want to tell them
to press F8 5 times and then choose to cut; they could easily press it 4 or
6 and cut the wrong amount.

In our case they could be in the middle of a very long section, and so they
may not see their selection results clearly.

Is there no menu choice or any other way to select the current section?

thanks.

Chip
 
Chip,
Here are 2 alternatives to selecting the current section:
1. You can select the current section by making use of the built-in
bookmark \section
a. Place the insertion point anywhere in the current section
b. On the Edit menu, click Go To (alternatively, press CTRL+G)
c. In Go to what box, click Bookmark
d. In Enter bookmark name box, type \section
e. Click Go To (this will select the current section, including the section
break at the end of the section, if any)
f. Click Close (to unselect, click anywhere in the document)

2. An inelegant macro that does the same thing:
Sub selectcurrentsection()
Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:="\section"
End Sub


If this procedure is repeated often, add the macro to a keyboard shortcut or
to a button on a toolbar


To create a macro using the recorder, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/UsingRecorder.htm

To copy a macro provided by someone else, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/CreateAMacro.htm

To assign a macro to a keyboard shortcut, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToHotkey.htm

To assign a macro to a button on a toolbar
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToToolbar.htm

Jon
 
Chip,
In addition to my previous suggestions which, if you subsequently Cut the
selection, would involve deleting the section break at the end of the
current section, please note:
A section break controls the page/section layout settings (margins, headers
and footers, page orientation.etc.) of the text that precedes it. If you
delete a section break, the preceding text becomes part of the following
section and assumes its page/section layout settings; section breaks must be
deleted with great care to avoid unintended changes to the text that
precedes the section break

If deleting the section break poses a problem, simply exclude it from your
selection.

Jon
 
thank you very much; quite ellogant.

Chip


Jon Weaver said:
Chip,
Here are 2 alternatives to selecting the current section:
1. You can select the current section by making use of the built-in
bookmark \section
a. Place the insertion point anywhere in the current section
b. On the Edit menu, click Go To (alternatively, press CTRL+G)
c. In Go to what box, click Bookmark
d. In Enter bookmark name box, type \section
e. Click Go To (this will select the current section, including the section
break at the end of the section, if any)
f. Click Close (to unselect, click anywhere in the document)

2. An inelegant macro that does the same thing:
Sub selectcurrentsection()
Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:="\section"
End Sub


If this procedure is repeated often, add the macro to a keyboard shortcut or
to a button on a toolbar


To create a macro using the recorder, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/UsingRecorder.htm

To copy a macro provided by someone else, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/CreateAMacro.htm

To assign a macro to a keyboard shortcut, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToHotkey.htm

To assign a macro to a button on a toolbar
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToToolbar.htm

Jon
Click to expand...
 
thanks again, but it's perfect for my needs as each section in my doc has
its own unique headers/footers which need to travel with it.
 
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