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Selecting text

When editing text or changing text attributes, you must first select the characters you want to change.

To select characters within a text block:

1 | Select the Text tool.
2 | Do one of the following:
| Drag to select characters.
| Double-click to select a word.
| Click to specify the beginning of the selection and Shift-click to specify the end of the selection.
| Press Ctrl+A (Windows) or Command+A (Macintosh) to select all the text in the block.

To select text blocks:

Select the Arrow tool and click a text block. Shift-click to select multiple text blocks.