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Select and copy text

Use the Select text tool to highlight words on a page and copy them.

You can select the words on a page and copy them into another program.

Steps

  1. In the rail, choose Home, then Text in the Quick tools group (its full name is Select text).
  2. Drag across the words you want. Double-click selects a word.
  3. Press Ctrl+C, or right-click and choose Copy. Copy is also in Edit, Text group.

Good to know

  • If a page is only a picture (for example a scan), Monstera says This page is a picture, so there is no text to select or search. Recognise its text first; see "Make scanned pages searchable (OCR)".
  • Right-clicking selected text also lets you highlight it, comment on it, search for it, mark it for redaction, or ask the AI assistant about it.

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