L/V 10 Tip of the Day #51 Select a large chunk of text

MJ. Smith
MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,108
edited November 21 in English Forum

Another tip of the day (TOTD) series for Logos/Verbum 10. They will be short and often drawn from forum posts. Feel free to ask questions and/or suggest forum posts you'd like to see included. Adding comments about the behavior on mobile and web apps would be appreciated by your fellow forumites. A search for "L/V 10 Tip of the Day site:community.logos.com" on Google should bring the tips up as should this Reading List within the application.

This tip is inspired by the forum post: Copying limitation - Logos Forums

I hope my electricity and internet are finally stable; their instability is the cause of the spotty postings in the last week or so.

a normal Microsoft Word function is to left-click the mouse, drag over some text, let go of the left mouse button, use the scroll button to move to a new position in the document some 30 or 40 pages further on, then hold the shift key, and finally click the left button on the mouse in the new location.  This then highlights everything from where you initially positioned the mouse up until the final position.
Yes, Steve, this works.

Try click (tap) at the start, hold Shift down, scroll to your end position and click.
Yes, Dave, this works.

Have you tried using Print/Export instead of Copy/Paste?
Yes, Graham, this works.

Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 35,674

    Try click (tap) at the start, hold Shift down, scroll to your end position and click.
    Yes, Dave, this works.

    It also worked 11 years ago!

    Dave
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    Windows 11 & Android 13

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,108

    It also worked 11 years ago!

    If I could have only found Rosie's description of the first method 11 years ago as well. [:D]  Some items are asked perpetually - large selection, undo, search highlights . . .

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."