You don't need to hold down a "left click" while you scroll all the way down to the bottom of your document. You can quickly select all the text in a document. Put your cursor in the left margin and press control while you left click one time. That's it! Selecting all the text at once is a good idea if you want to change the font type or the font size for a whole document. You also want to select all the text before you change the margins or tabs.
You don't have to grab the scroll bar or click on
the up or down arrows. Just click on the space beneath the scroll bar. You will scroll down a whole screen! This also works for scrolling up, right, or left a screen. It works in most web browsers, too. It makes reading documents and web pages easier, because it is easier to keep track of where you left off reading. You jump ahead a screen at a time.
An alternative to scrolling and to mousing around a document is to use the arrow keys. On a standard keyboard they are under your delete key. On a laptop they are just to the right of your right shift key. They work in most web browsers as well as in Microsoft Word. You sometimes have to click on the area you want to scroll in, before the arrow keys start working there. Once you get the hang of the arrow keys, you won't often mouse around your documents. The arrow keys are much faster. They are faster still used in conjunction with the "end" key, which takes you to the end of a line.
You don't need to keep switching back and forth between two windows. You can simultaneously see the top and the bottom of your document. Just click on the window menu, and then on "Split"! Click in the middle of the window to create the split. You now have two identical documents, one above and one below. When you are done, just go back to the Window menu and select "Remove Split".
You don't need to scroll so often to read long documents. Put two pages on the screen at once. Go to the view menu and choose "Reading Layout". Do you want it back to one page on the screen? Go back to the view menu and choose "Normal".
Everything you can do in Microsoft Word with the mouse and menus, you can also do with key shortcuts. These appear in your menus in shorthand. For example, the key shortcut for print is Control-P. If you
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