I don't fully understand what you are asking. Could it be that pressing Alt
and then selecting text with the mouse is what you're after?

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Enjoy,
Tony


"Big Mountain" Big 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.