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In article <1992Sep4.142015.12078@linus.mitre.org> Cynthia B. Phillips,
cbp@ladyday.mitre.org writes:
>Most word processors have a select all command, which is very useful
>for changing elements of a document once it is already written.
>
>Is there any way to do this in Word 4?  As a college student, I find
>this is one of the things I use most, to, umm...., adjust the length
>of papers through creative font resizing and respacing.  But in order
>to change the font on a 10 or 12 page paper, the only way seems to be
>to scroll through the whole thing, mouse-highlighting it, and then
>change the font.

Word 4 does have the ability to select all. There are two ways to do this:

By mouse:	Move the cursor all the way over to the left until the arrow
			points toward the right. Hold down the Command key and click.
           
By keyboard: Type <Command-Option-M>.

These should be both covered in the manual and in Help.

************HOWEVER***************

There is a better way to do what you are looking for!

I would strongly suggest you look into learning the basics of Style
Sheets.
To do the same thing, all you need to do is change the Normal style and 
all text should reflect those changes.

Styles are a VERY powerful formatting tool that will help you immensely 
once you get the hang of them. Pretty handy when you get around to 
writing papers or resumes.

>I hope I'm missing a simple and obvious way to do this, but if not, is
>there a less-simple, less-obvious way to do this?  Does Word 5 have
>a select all command?  (since I missed the free upgrade period by less
>than a month, I'm not too eager to pay to upgrade, but I might
>consider it if it were worth it....)

Word 5 has some really nice features, but if you can, I'd suggest you
wait 
until Word 6 comes out. (One really nice improvement over Word 4 is Word 
5's manual, however. But I don't think this should be a deciding 
factor...) 
Hopefully Microsoft will have finished putting all the features they have 
in Word for Windows 2.0 into the Mac version. Automatic bulleted lists
and 
easy icon-driven table creation and editing are really nice features and 
should be worth the wait. 

>Thanks for any help you can give me!
>
>
>Cynthia Phillips

No problem. Good luck!

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