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2.3 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 across text to highlight it, or just click
where you wish the selection to begin and 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 leftmargin
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.
Ctrl+Shift (-Shift) and the left and right arrow keys select one word at a time.

Ctrl+A (-A) selects everything in the body of the pagetext, graphics, and
all.

Once you've selected text, you can cut, copy, or delete it. To move text to another part
of the Web page, or even to another Dreamweaver document, use the Cut, Copy, and
Paste commands in the Edit menu. You can also move text around by dragging and
dropping it, as shown in Figure 2-5.

Once copied, the text remains on your Clipboard and can be placed again and again
(until you copy something else to the Clipboard, of course). When you cut (or copy)
and paste within Dreamweaver, all of the code affecting that text comes along for the
ride. If you copy a paragraph that includes bold text, for example, you'll copy the
HTML tags both for creating a paragraph and for producing bold text.

NOTE

Not all of the formatting necessarily comes along for the ride. With Dreamweaver MX 2004's support
for Cascading Style Sheets, most of your text formatting includes some CSS formatting, and unfortunately,
cutting and pasting text from one document to another does not also copy the CSS code. So on some occasions,
you may copy text from one document, paste it into another, and find that the formatting disappears.
(You'll find more detail about this particular problem in Section 6.3.3.)

To delete any selection, press Delete or choose EditClear.

You can move a blob of
selected text simply by dragging
it to another location
in the document window.
Point to a spot inside your
highlighted selection; the
cursor changes from an
I-beam to an arrow; you can
now drag the selection. Let
go of the mouse button to
drop your selection at the spot
indicated by the vertical bar,
as shown here. This technique
works with graphics and other
objects you've selected in the
document window, too. You
can even move a copy of the
selection by pressing Ctrl (Option)
as you drag-and-drop.