You can click and drag to highlight text, but it’s much faster to do so with the following keyboard shortcuts: RELATED: 42+ Text-Editing Keyboard Shortcuts That Work Almost Everywhere Ray Bond/Shutterstock Selecting Text
Similar shortcuts are also available on Windows. Shift+Enter: Starts a new line in apps like Messages, Slack, or WYSIWYG editors.Option+Down Arrow: To the end of current paragraph.Option+Up Arrow: To the beginning of the current paragraph.Command+Right Arrow: To the end of the current line.Command+Left Arrow: To the beginning of the current line.Option+Right Arrow: To the beginning of the next word.Option+Left Arrow: To the beginning of the previous word.Using the Option and Command keys as modifiers, you can move the cursor in the following ways: You can use the arrow keys to move the cursor around and press Enter to start a new paragraph.
