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If you’ve ever needed to select and copy parts of a text document that aren’t right next to each other and don’t touch, How to Select Non-Contiguous Text. Here are links to pages that explain how to copy text, files, directories, and other data on a computer.
Visit the link that matches what you’re trying to copy if you need help. you can do that with a text selection shortcut in Mac OS X that not many people know about.
How to Select Non-Contiguous Text
Format the text
Once the text is chosen, you can change the way it looks:
- Change the font or size of the font
- Add bolding, italics, highlighting, or underlining.
- Change the hue
- You can access all of these options from the Google Docs menu, or you can look at the Format
You can also use any style that makes sense for a paragraph. Change “Normal text” to “Heading 2” or “Title” or any other paragraph style. If you’ve chosen whole paragraphs, this is a great way to change the alignment, add numbers, or turn text into a checklist, among many other things.
But keep in mind that paragraph formatting affects the whole paragraph, so changes to paragraphs will affect every paragraph where you have chosen words. Make sure that the text you’ve chosen matches the parts of your document that you want to change.
Add a link
Using the Insert | Link command, you can add a link to all of the text you have chosen. For example, you might want to make sure that every mention of a product name in marketing materials leads to a page about that product. You can choose several occurrences of the product name, click Insert | Link only once, and then paste in the link. So, you only have to add the link once instead of many times.
Comment or add a smiley face
With non-contiguous select, you can also add a comment that applies to different pieces of text. Select the text, choose Insert Comment, and then add your comment. When added this way, the comment shows up next to all of the selected text. If you’d rather comment with pictures, the Insert Emoji action works the same way, showing emoji next to the text you choose.
Copy
Select the parts of text you want to copy, then choose Edit Copy. This copies all of the text you have chosen, so you can then paste it somewhere else. For example, you could copy important parts of text from one Google Doc and paste them into another Google Doc. When copied, each word, group of words, or paragraph that you choose will be pasted on a new line.
Save to store
Choose “Save to Keep” to add all of the selected text to a new note in Google Keep. But you can only save to keep if you right-click (or two-finger tap menu). After you’ve chosen everything you want, keep your cursor over a piece of text you’ve chosen and right-click it (or, on a touchpad, two-finger tap). This will bring up a menu where you can choose “Save to Keep” and a few other things.
FAQ
How do I send a text message?
- Open the Messages app .
- Tap Compose .
- In “To,” enter the names, phone numbers, or email addresses that you’d like to message. You can also pick from your top contacts or your whole contact list.
How do I get my iPhone text messages on my computer?
Go to Setting > Messages on your iPhone. Tap Forward Text Message. Note: If you don’t see Text Message Forwarding, make sure that both your iPhone and your Mac are signed in to iMessage with the same Apple ID.
How do I get my phone text messages on my computer?
- On your phone, open Messages .
- Tap More. …
- On your computer, open Messages for web in a browser, like Chrome or Safari.
- Optional: To pair with Messages for web automatically next time, check the box “Remember this computer.”