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In this video tutorial we're going to take Adobe FrameMaker 9 content and select it and that sounds like a relatively simple thing to do and by and large it is however selecting content does depend on the content type that you want to select, for example is it Text, or a Graphic, or content inside a Table, or Footnote, or any other type of content that FrameMaker supports. And the other consideration is what is the Range of content to select? Do you want to highlight just a single character, a word, a range of words, a paragraph, or even a range of paragraphs to highlight an entire section? Based on what it is that you want to highlight you have to make the decision on how to use either your keyboard or your mouse or a combination of the two in order to best select the content. Again, it sounds relatively easy; it is pretty simple, but there are a lot of little shortcuts in here and I'm going to show you some of these in order to make it a bit quicker when you have to highlight content. Let's imagine for a moment that you want to highlight a single character, for example the F in San Francisco. To do so you just click and drag with your mouse, so I position in front of a letter, I click and drag and I highlight that character. For some of the smaller characters, for example the semicolon, can be a little trickier at times especially if you're either a new user or your mouse is a little jumpy. So you may decide that you want to highlight words. If you're highlighting words double-click them. You may also decide that want to highlight an entire paragraph and to do so triple-click. So the basic selection is pretty straightforward: use your mouse, click and drag, double-click and drag for words, or triple-click in order to highlight paragraphs. However, if you're not the type of person who wants to use the mouse you can also use your Arrow keys. If I use my Arrow keys to move around in my document simply pressing my Arrow keys up and down, left and right, I navigate through the document. If I'm placing the insertion point in front of a character that I want to highlight, for example, here the full colon, I can use Shift and my Arrow key to the right. This selects the entire colon. If I hold the Shift and I continue to move across I highlight entire words. If, on the other hand, I'm somewhere inside my document and I hold down Shift and I use my Arrow keys to the left, I select content to the left. On its own that's great. A quick way to select content, but if I want to highlight words I use Shift plus Ctrl. Now when I use my Arrow keys it grabs entire words. Again, that'll work just as well down here where it reads: the quake came Wednesday morning. If I want to highlight Wednesday morning I hold Ctrl-Shift and I press my Arrow key twice. If I want to highlight a range of content I can use a combination of the mouse to double-click and then Shift and click in the middle of another word to select the range. So now I'm using a combination: double-click using the mouse and then hold down the Shift and click right in the middle of a word. Because you've intentionally highlighted an entire word the selection, even if you click in the middle of another word, is an entire word. This of course means that if you take an entire paragraph such as this heading and you scroll down in the document until you reach the very end of a section you can Shift and then click in the body paragraph near the end of the section in order to select a much larger range without trying to scroll up and down in your document. Scrolling up and down results in the screen quickly jumping back and forth and in many cases you can't select what you actually intended to highlight. So again, triple-click in a heading, scroll down until you see the location where that information may end and once you get to the end of the information Shift-click and you highlight the entire range from start to end. Now, you could also have content such as the Bullet List that we see here. A couple of other ways you can highlight. Again, you could triple-click and then Shift-click at the very bottom, or triple-click and keep holding the mouse button, then just move downward without releasing the mouse button until you've highlighted the entire range, if it's easy to see it on screen and release your mouse button. Finally, we get to content that isn't text-based. For example, in this case, we have a couple of Footnotes and when we highlight the number of the Footnote it automatically highlights the related content at the bottom of the page. We also have a Table. Table selection's a little more involved. Because of that we're going to cover Tables separately in the video related to Working with Tables. In much the same way, working with Graphics also has a variety of options that are very explicit to the graphic use, so therefore we're going to wait with it until we get to Graphics, but selecting content, whether you're selecting a word, a character, a paragraph, or a range, is a relatively basic thing to do in FrameMaker.