Posted by Charlie V.

Did you know you have multiple ways of selecting text in Mac OS X? Here are some great time-saving tips to help you highlight text faster!

1. To select text one word at a time, double click on your starting word, and then begin dragging your mouse, words will be highlighted in their entirety, instead of one character at a time.

2. To select text on paragraph at a time, triple click on your starting paragraph, and then begin dragging your mouse, paragraphs will be highlighted in their entirety.

3. Double click on any word in OS X to highlight the entire word.

4. Triple click on any word within a paragraph, and OS X will highlight the entire paragraph.

5. Another method that beats dragging your mouse across text to highlight is to hold down the Shift key, click where you want to start highlighting text, then click where you want to stop highlighting text (while shift is still held down). Voila, your text is highlighted right where you wanted without trying to hold down the mouse button and scroll at the same time.

I hope these tips save you time and frustration when selecting text in OS X!

-Charlie