{"id":341,"date":"2007-07-28T19:20:24","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T00:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/07\/29\/efficiency-tip-95-ctrl-a\/"},"modified":"2015-05-14T09:12:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:12:27","slug":"efficiency-tip-95-ctrl-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/07\/28\/efficiency-tip-95-ctrl-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Efficiency Tip #95 &#8211; Ctrl-A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/150\/350920542_cf6652d89f_m.jpg\" height=\"180\" style=\"width: 240px; height: 180px\" \/>Looking back through these posts, I noticed I had not devoted a whole post to one of the\u00a0more important shortcuts: Ctrl-A.<\/p>\n<p>Ctrl-A is used to select everything on a page.\u00a0 That page can be a web page, a Word document, a spreadsheet&#8230; any digital document.<\/p>\n<p>The equivalent slow way of doing this\u00a0involves using the mouse.\u00a0 Click before the first word\u00a0on the first page.\u00a0 Now drag (don&#8217;t let up on the mouse button)\u00a0past the last word of the last page.<\/p>\n<p>Ctrl-A is usually followed with the copy\u00a0command.\u00a0 I have also used it\u00a0when changing the format (font, size or color) of text.<\/p>\n<p>TSPY=3.39<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back through these posts, I noticed I had not devoted a whole post to one of the\u00a0more important shortcuts: Ctrl-A. Ctrl-A is used to select everything on a page.\u00a0 That page can be a web page, a Word document, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/07\/28\/efficiency-tip-95-ctrl-a\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[336,338],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","category-efficiency","tag-edtech","tag-efficiency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}