Selecting text
Before you can do anything to text in a note—copy it, move it, or reformat it—you must select it. OneNote offers a handful of techniques for selecting text with the mouse. To select text by touch, tap the text and drag the selection handle.
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To select |
Do this |
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A word |
Double-click the word |
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Some text |
Drag across the text |
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To the beginning of a line |
Press Shift+Home |
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To the end of a line |
Press Shift+End |
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Current paragraph and subordinate paragraphs (if any) |
Click the paragraph handle or press Ctrl+Shift+- (Control+Shift+hyphen) to select a paragraph and any subordinate paragraphs (created as part of an outline). Click the paragraph handle or press Ctrl+Shift+-again to select only the current paragraph. |
You can tell when text is selected because OneNote highlights it.
Select text
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Double-click a word in a note to select it. To select a word by touch, tap the word and drag the selection handle.
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Drag across some text to select more than one word, or tap the text and drag the selection handle.
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Press Ctrl+Shift+- (Control+Shift+hyphen) to select the current paragraph (you might need to click in a paragraph first) and any subordinate paragraphs.
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Click a paragraph handle to select the paragraph and any subordinate paragraphs (the paragraph handle appears when you move the pointer over a paragraph). Click the paragraph handle again to select only the current paragraph.
See Also
To learn how to use the paragraph handle to manipulate an item in an outline, read Creating and constructing outlines.