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  • Another very handy trick is to first highlight the entire message you're about to send (press Ctrl-A), then copy it (press Ctrl-C) so that if Google does eat your time-consuming message, you can still repaste it (by pressing Ctrl-V) into the commentbox again or by saving it in a file for a later attempt.

    Blogger can't seem to handle long comments 2010

  • Press Ctrl-A to see something which was not in the orginal picture.

    North Dakota Snow Angel World Record 2006

  • To select a word, double-click it; to select an entire paragraph, triple-click; to select a single line, click once to the left of the line; and to select the entire document, press Ctrl-A.

    Try the free word processor in Windows | Sync Blog 2008

  • Press Ctrl-A to see something which was not in the orginal picture.

    2006 » October 2006

  • If needed, you could jump directly to the other half of the screen by pressing Ctrl-A.

    The Apple II History, by Steven Weyhrich : Languages, Continued 1992

  • Select all the tracks in the playlist with Ctrl-A, drag it into a Word document or an e-mail, and voila - backup made.

    Wired Top Stories Duncan Geere 2011

  • Ctrl-A (the Select All command) or an errant brush of a laptop's touchpad, followed by additional typing.

    PCWorld 2010

  • Ctrl-A (the Select All command) or an errant brush of a laptop's touchpad, followed by additional typing.

    PCWorld 2010

  • Ctrl-A and Ctrl-C to select the whole image and to copy it to the clipboard.

    PCWorld 2010

  • Do Ctrl-A, then Ctrl-C to copy your artwork to the clipboard ... then, in Olympus Master, do Ctrl-V to paste it over the image you brought in from the camera.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) 2010

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