Andrew’s Mac Tips Weblog

Here is a quick selection tip that I recently re-discovered by accident: If you triple-click anywhere within a paragraph of text then the whole paragraph is selected. Now, if you hold on the last click and drag down you’ll see that subsequent whole paragraphs are being added to the selection…

The big-money tip is this: If you triple-click anywhere within a paragraph and then release the button, you can then scroll down a long page and then simply Shift-click anywhere you like within the last paragraph you want included in the selection. All text in between, and the whole of the Shift-clicked paragraph will be selected.

Try it. It’s easier to say than to do.