Here's our Windows 95/98 Tip for.. July 30, 1998
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Select an entire document
In Windows 9x, as well as in most Win9x applications, there are several quick ways to highlight (select) all of the information in a document. For example, using Wordpad, if you want to select all of the text in an open document, you can use the click, , click method. That means you place the cursor at the very beginning of the document and click there. Then, move to the very end of the document, hold down the key, and click there. Everything between those two points should now be selected, and ready to cut or copy, or whatever.

Another way to accomplish this is to place the cursor at the very beginning of the document and then press + + simultaneously.

Yet another way, in some Windows applications (like Wordpad), all you have to do is to triple-click in the left margin. You'll know where to click because the cursor reverses itself and becomes a right-poining arrow (shown below).

...and thanks to Stan Scott for pointing out the easist way of all, which we missed. In most Windows applications + A can be used to select an entire document.