Word 3.0 to quickly extend your current selection - hit COMMAND-OPTION-H and you will see "extend to" in the page number box. To advance to a specific character, just type the character and the selection will extend to the next occurrence of the character. The command will differentiate between upper and lower case. To extend the selection the the end of a paragraph, hit Return. This technique also works for tabs and new line marks (Shift-Return).