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‘A text can be selected.’

[⟨det text.n⟩ selected.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

You can change the status of your text by setting the cursor at the selected text and change it here: Heading 1 – headings Heading 2 onwards – subheadings Alternatively, you could navigate using these 2 selections – decrease indent and increase indent.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

After selecting some text, click on the button or the ComboBox and you will notice the text in the standard TextArea doesn’t appear selected (though if you tab the focus back you will see it still is) while the selected text in SelectionTextArea remains visibly selected.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:13 pm (GMT 0) Topic Replies: 4 Hi all, I’ve decided to use ImageSearch to find the selected text.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I normally load the selected text into an XMLDocument object and then perform the required edits against that object.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

When in non (!) – edit mode, it would really make sense to be able to merely select / highlight a piece of text and click some macro / plugin that creates a new tiddler with the content of this selected text.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I tried Persistent, but it did the same and then endlessly repeated the selected text.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

You can also define their appearance as other commenting tools. * Commenting Text Tool: Enables users to add most types of text edits by right – clicking on the selected text, including highlight, strikeout, underline, squiggly and replacement.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

If I have selected a large section of text on a Web page, I can enter’ ’ email this to Mike’ ’ and the selected text gets emailed to my contact named Mike.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Leave your text Selected and add your drop shadow, bevel or whatever other effects to the text you wish. 10.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

BBCode: Gives a right – click context menu that allows you to add BBCode formatting or HTML formatting to the selected text.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

This converts the formatting for the selected text to the Normal style.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

With the “Translate with Windows Live “Accelerator in Internet Explorer 8, you can get an in – place translation of the selected text displayed directly on the page.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Ubiquity will use a remote translation web service to automatically detect the language of the selected text, translate it into English, and display a preview of the English translation in the Ubiquity results listing.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I’m so freaking excited, because he will even use your vows or selected text!
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Projections with selected text from Elfriede Jelinek’s?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

After selecting some text, click on the button or the ComboBox and you will notice the text in the standard TextArea doesn’t appear selected (though if you tab the focus back you will see it still is) while the selected text in SelectionTextArea remains visibly selected.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

This simple command allows one to copy the text selected, which is especially useful when combined with the select all command.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

(Alternatively, you can also right – click, with the text still selected, and select Create Outlines.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

You’ve probably seen the colored scrollbars that people used to force upon IE users (some still do); with Firefox and some other browsers, you can now make selected text a different color, or change the autoscroll icon.
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Queried on 2013-05-20.