Not sure how to select text on a Mac? Position the mouse cursor at the beginning of the text, click and hold the mouse button, drag to the end of the text, then let go of the mouse button.

If you type the same thing over and over, like your name, email address, or a go-to message to a pal, you can speed things up using text replacements on Mac.

Clicking and dragging is a perfectly good way to select text, but there are others, possibly better, ways to go about it.

Text Lens is a Mac app by Sindre Sorhus. It lets you select text that you otherwise cannot copy, such as text from PDFs, images, videos, and more.

PopClip adds a popover menu whenever you select text on Mac. This makes it easy to access basic actions such as cut, copy, and paste, and it has many extensions to send text to third-party apps ...