On the Apple menu, click System Preferences. To use this Office keyboard shortcut, you must first turn off the Mac OS X keyboard shortcut for this key. Instead of showing only the total word count, Word for Mac displays the words you highlight along with the total number of words in the document in the status bar at the bottom of the document. Word for Mac 2011 displays the word count a little differently from the PC versions of Word. 2 – To highlight a paragraph, place your mouse in the body of the paragraph and TRIPLE CLICK your mouse.

Experiment with the following yourself: 1 – To highlight a single word, place your cursor on it and DOUBLE CLICK your mouse. Clicking, then dragging, the computer mouse over a word or phrase is probably the most common way of capturing the content in Word documents or emails. This post covers using both the mouse and keyboard to highlight words or phrases that we want to either delete, or copy and save to paste in another place in the same document or email or put in a totally new one.