Assuming that you are referring to table columns, you can do the
following: Press Alt+PageUp to go the first cell in the current
column, and then press Alt+Shift+PageDown to select the column. For
more, see:

Keyboard shortcuts for Word
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...866641033.aspx

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Big Mountain" wrote in message
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I have forgotten how to select a column from within a text
paragraph. There
is a key combination with the arrows to select the column width and
the
highlight can them be confined to a defined X & Y column for
formatting.
Problem arises as by-product of using Microsoft's Document Scanning
which
does not apparently allow one to select columns to scan.