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| Select and copy text |
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| 1. | Select the Select Text tool , and do one of the following: |
| | • | | Click to create an insertion point at the beginning of the text to be selected, and then drag to the end of the text to be selected. |
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| | • | | Click to create an insertion point at the beginning of the text to be selected, and then Shift-click to create an insertion point at the end of the text to be selected. The intervening text is selected. |
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| | • | | Double-click to select a word. |
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| | • | | Triple-click to select a line of text. |
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| | • | | Click four times to select all text in a page. |
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| | • | | To extend a selection, press Shift and move the arrow key in the direction of the required extension. |
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| | • | | Drag a selection rectangle over a block or column of text. |
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| 2. | Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS), and choose Copy to Clipboard. |
| To use the Hand tool to select text, select the Enable Text Selection for the Hand Tool option under General Preferences. |
| Note: If the PDF document was created using a scanner, or if the text is part of an image, text may be recognized as an image rather than as characters that you can select. |
| You may also want to: |
| Copy text and graphics to the Clipboard |
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| General Task Topics |
| Copying and pasting tables in complete Help |
| Copying images in complete Help |