But it's TableSelectTheRemainderOfTheColumn() or some such that I
want. Selecting the entire column is already available. I want to be
able to search for successive find hits in the column. (I know how to
assign a keystroke shortcut for code that already exists.)

The long, 300 page table doesn't seem to be a problem so far. But
I've got 1 GB of RAM in my 1.5 GHz AMD computer. The conversion
process from text to table took about 10 minutes. But searching the
table is fast.

v/r

Fred Holmes

On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 13:31:49 -0400, "Jay Freedman"
wrote:

Fred Holmes wrote:
Word 2000

I'm looking for a keystroke shortcut that will select text from the
insertion point to the bottom of the current column in a Word Table.

So that I can select that text and then perform a find/search that
searches only the remainder of that column for a (another) hit in that
column.

The table is a 300-page-long list of acronyms (two columns, left
column for the acronym, right for the definition), so the mouse
movements I know of are very inefficient for getting to the bottom of
the current (generally the left) column.

Macro code would be a fine solution, if no built-in keystroke shortcut
exists. I can add a keystroke shortcut to the macro.

Thanks for any help.

Fred Holmes

There isn't any built-in keystroke, but you can assign one. Open Tools
Customize and click the Keyboard button. In the Commands tab, click Table in
the Categories list and click TableSelectColumn in the Commands list. Click
in the "Press new shortcut key" box and press the combination you want to
use, then click the Assign button. (By default the assignment will go into
the Normal.dot template, but you can choose to store it in the document
itself by changing the dropdown before clicking Assign.)

By the way, I hope you don't have a lot of trouble with one table covering
300 pages. Historically, Word has been very unhappy dealing with long
tables. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/FastTables.htm for some
hints.