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Questions tagged [text-selection]

for issues with selecting text, or to clarify selection features or settings of programs or operating systems. Pair this tag with the OS, browser, spreadsheet or other program that you are using.

This tag is for issues with selecting text, or for clarification around text selection features and settings of various operating systems and programs - including browsers, text editors, spreadsheet editors or any other program.

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How to Select Hyperlink Text in Google Chrome?

How can I select hyperlink text using the mouse, without engaging the link itself? Is there a key combination that would allow this? For example, holding the Ctrl or Alt keys while clicking and dragging the cursor?
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Selecting whole column except first X (header) cells in Excel

I know I can select all cells in a particular column by clicking on column header descriptor (ie. A or AB). But is it possible to then exclude a few cells out of it, like my data table headings? Example I would like to select data cells of a…
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How to select and copy text using only the keyboard in PuTTY?

Is there any way of selecting a text with keyboard? The way I do it normally is by using Shift+arrows.
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Is there a way to not select whitespace after a word when double-clicking?

In Windows, it seems the default behavior when double-clicking a word is to select the word, and any whitespace following the word (spaces or tabs). You can see this behavior across all programs, so I'm assuming this isn't a per-program setting.…
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How can I select text highlighted by search in Vim?

I often perform searches to hop to a word or phrase instead of navigating there with h/j/k/l. Then I hit n to hop between occurrences. Say I've got this text: Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. - Groucho Marx I type /an arrow and…
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How to keep selected text highlighted when focus changes in Microsoft Word/Excel

Related to this question: Show cell selection in Excel when not in focus except that my case concerns Microsoft Word. When I select text or a column/row in Microsoft Word or Excel (2003, 2007, 2010 or 2013) it shows up highlighted like this in…
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How can I select an HTML tag's content in Vim?

Is it possible to select an HTML tag's content in Vim? For example:

I am a silly butterfly

I would like to select "I am a silly butterfly". I know that you can use vi" to select text inside quotes, brackets, etc. The problem here is that the…
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How to select a rectangular range in VIM?

Assuming I have a text like abc121313131abc abc13153545464abc abc4325435345abc abc343535353535353abc I want to select the abcs in front of the 4 lines.How can I do this?
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How can I 'select to end of file' in Notepad?

Temporarily stuck with Notepad, I'd like to know if there is any better or quicker way of selecting from here to the end of the file than moving the mouse to the bottom of the screen and then vigorously from side to side (which is more exercise than…
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Vim visual mode, stay selected

I love vim's visual mode. However when I select some text then do something to it the text is then unselected. For example lets say that I select a block of code and indent it the code is then unselected so if you pressed 4 > instead of 5 > then…
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Can I specify double-click selection delimiters in Terminal.app?

In Mac OS X's Terminal.app, I'd like to set my own selection delimiters such that if I have the text foo.bar.baz and double click bar, only bar is selected. Is this possible and if so how?
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How do I select only the middle part of a hyperlink?

How do I select a middle part of an hyper-link as you see in the image above? You can also suggest me a browser extension or a userscript that converts all links to text in a selected sub part of the page after pressing a hot-key. (Browser: Google…
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Chrome extension to allow text selection

I've come across a lot of sites that block the right click (context) menu and prevent selection of text by dragging. I found a Chrome extension, Allow Right Click, which solves the first problem, but what about the text selection? Does anyone know…
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Sublime Text 3 - Quick Add/Find Match behavior

Suppose I'm working with a file In Sublime Text 3 that contains multiple occurrences of a single character variable, c, which I want to rename to another name. When I select one instance of that variable with my cursor, Sublime Text automatically…
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How to change word selection separator characters in Mac OS X?

Depending on your system, the word separator characters change the way you can select/delete a word (e.g. by double clicking on it or using a key combination with your keyboard). The fact is that I hate the default behavior of OSX. For example: Take…
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