Typing, Editing, and Selecting Text

Before formatting anything, editing text comes down to three physical skills: moving the cursor, selecting text, and cut/copy/paste.

Arrow keys move one character or line at a time. Ctrl+arrow jumps a whole word at a time. Home/End jump to the start or end of the current line.

Click and drag to select freely, double-click to select one word, triple-click to select a whole paragraph, or Ctrl+A to select the entire document.

Ctrl+X cuts (removes and stores), Ctrl+C copies (stores without removing), Ctrl+V pastes the stored text at the cursor's current position.

Ctrl+F searches the document and jumps to every match. Ctrl+H opens Find and Replace — type what to find and what to replace it with, then Replace one at a time or Replace All at once. Genuinely faster than manually hunting for every occurrence of a name or term that changed.