Clicking and dragging is a perfectly good way to select text, but there are others, possibly better, ways to go about it.

Here's how to copy and paste in just a few quick steps, whether you have a Windows or macOS machine, prefer using a keyboard, or would rather just use a mouse.

If you’ve really got a lot of text to select, try a triple-click-and-hold, then start dragging. With a triple-click and drag, the Mac will select entire paragraphs of text as you drag the mouse.

Not sure how to select text on a Mac? Position the mouse cursor at the beginning of the text, click and hold the mouse button, drag to the end of the text, then let go of the mouse button.

To select Text vertically in Notepad++ easily, you can use a Keyboard Shortcut, Use your mouse or Enable Colum Editor. Learn how!

If you spend a lot of time in Microsoft Word (or any other word processor), it's high time you learned how to select text using only your keyboard. Why? Because it saves you having to reach for ...

Follow this tutorial on how to save steps when you want to format, link, comment or copy distinct sections of text in a Google Doc.

There are many ways to select Word text - 15 at least! Susan Harkins shares her favorite selection methods.