Select an entire word by double-clicking it;
select an entire paragraph by triple-clicking.
Select the entire document's text (sans the header and footer) by using CTRL-A.
Select line-by-line by moving your cursor into the left-hand margin just until the cursor arrow points to the right, then click and drag your mouse down.
Want to copy the formatting of one paragraph to another? Use the Format Painter button in the Clipboard section of the Home tab.
Copying formats using Format Painter
If you’ve ever been working in a document and wanted to make this paragraph (or this line or this heading) look just like that other one, here’s a simple trick.
In any version of Word (on the Formatting toolbar/ribbon), you’ll see a button that looks like a paintbrush:
That is the Format Painter button. This enables you to take formatting of one paragraph, and put it over here. This comes in really handy if you cut-and-paste something in from another document and the fonts/spacing/indentation/whatever doesn’t match the rest of the document.
Here’s how you use it:
- Highlight the text whose formatting you like.
- Click the Format Painter button once.
- Highlight the text you want to reformat.
The text you highlighted in step #3 is immediately reformatted to match the text you formatted in step #1.
If you want to reformat multiple blocks of text, double-click the Format Painter button in step #2. That will enable you to copy that same format again and again in several places.
To stop reformatting, go back and click the Format Painter button once more, and it will “toggle” off and allow you to edit the document normally.