Microsoft Word: Highlighting with "F8" - how it works

With shortcuts many Word functions are even easier to use. This also applies to the keystroke on "F8", as it can help with highlighting. We explain how it works.

Simply press: "F8" gives you several handy options for text highlighting.

Normal highlighting of text content with the mouse is not complicated. "F8", however, provides some handy capabilities.

Microsoft Word: How to use "F8" for marking

To understand how "F8" works in Word, follow these steps as an example:

1. Click the mouse at any text location in Word and press "F8" twice in succession. This will mark the word on which the mouse pointer was.
2. Now press another time, so the whole sentence is marked.
3. With another press of "F8", the entire section appears as marked.
4. Now press a total of five times "F8", the contents of the entire Word document is marked.

In this way, you can easily apply markers of different sizes at the touch of a button. However, there is another way to do it: By placing the mouse pointer at a text location, then pressing "F8" once, and then clicking the cursor at another location, the entire area in between will be marked. "F8" in this case thus fulfills a "from / to" function with respect to the marking.Important to conclude in addition: with "Esc" you can terminate the mechanism at any time, in order to be able to continue working normally in the text.