What is MultiLine Text Selection?
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Make multiple noncontiguous text selections at a time in webpages. Text can be copied to clipboard through ctrl+c or the right-click copy option. You can also search your text on Google, YouTube, and Wikipedia through the right click selection menu.
Usage Make additional text selections while holding down ctrl. Clear all selections by clicking without holding ctrl. Undo the most recent selection with ctrl+z. On Macs, use cmd instead of ctrl.
Lock selections with ctrl+shift+L. When selections are locked, they will not disappear when left-clicking. This prevents accidentally clicking out and clearing your selections. While locked, ctrl/cmd is not needed to make selections. Leave locked mode and clear all highlighted text by pressing ctrl+shift+L again.
Right click any selection for search options. Select MultiSearch to open a search tab for each selection. Select CombinedSearch to open a single search tab for each selection separated by a space. Right click the extension icon in the Chrome toolbar (top-right of the browser) and select options to enable or disable the context menu search options.
Select the extension icon to toggle copy options. If 'Copy With Newline' is selected, each selection will be separated by a newline when copying. If 'Copy With Spaces' is selected, each selection will be separated by spaces when copying. If 'Copy With Bullets' is selected, each selection will be copied as a bullet point.
Notes
- The extension is automatically disabled by Chrome in the store description. Try it out on other sites.
- Refresh any current tabs when first installing to activate the extension on those pages. This is not necessary for new tabs.
- When selecting separate words throughout a web page, you can double-click while holding ctrl instead of dragging to select.
User reviews
- Works great on Wikipedia
- Helps in selecting different parts of text
- Great utility for specific needs
- Does not work on various websites
- Not functional with PDF files
- Issues after recent Chrome updates
- Causes YouTube search bar focus problems
- Inconsistent functionality on Mac
- Not working on many websites
- Works well on Wikipedia
- Stopped working after updates
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MultiLine Text Selection requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
MultiLine Text Selection has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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