In Atlantis you can select (mark) any unbroken fragment of text within a document window.
The selected text is displayed in inverse colors. For example, if the unselected text is displayed with black font color on white background, then the same text but selected is displayed with white font color on black background.
Each open document can contain a single selected fragment in the same time. In other words, you cannot select two different fragments of the same document simultaneously.
The term selection is very important for Atlantis as well as for other word processors. The most Atlantis operations are applied either exclusively to the selected text, or are applied to the selected text if any.
Atlantis offers various ways for selecting text using the keyboard as well as the mouse.
You might be already familiar with the most Atlantis hot keys that are used to move the cursor within the active document.
You should memorize a very simple rule about how to select text with the keyboard.
When pressing the hot keys that change the location of the cursor, you can hold the Shift key to select the text from the previous cursor position to its new position.
In other words, by holding the Shift key when the cursor is being moved, you expand the selected fragment.
Let's conduct an experiment.
Let's imagine that our document contains the only sentence Selecting Text....
As you see, the caret is located before the first character of this sentence.
Now let's press the Right Arrow key to move the cursor one character right.
The cursor is between the first and second characters.
Let's back the caret to the beginning of the document again.
Now we hold the Shift key, and press the Right Arrow key again.
The cursor is actually between the first and second characters (though you cannot see it) but the text between the initial cursor position and the recent one has became selected.
We can press the Right Arrow again to expand the selection to the right (note that the Shift key is still held).
You can use the Shift key in conjunction with other hot keys that move the cursor.
The example. The Ctrl+Right Arrow moves the cursor one word right. But the Ctrl+Shift+Right Arrow keys expand the selection one word right.
Also you can use the following hot keys to select text.
The classical technics for selecting text is:
Also Atlantis offers many additional ways for quick selecting with the mouse.
Tip:
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When you select text with the mouse, and the Select Whole Words Automatically option (the Tools | Options... command, Edit tab) is on, Atlantis will expand the selection by whole words regarding whether you have fully captured with the mouse all the words of the selected fragment. So you simply have to drag the mouse pointer over any point of a particular word to completely select it. If this option is off, Atlantis always selects text with the mouse "character by character". |
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