You can select a column using Alt+Drag.
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"Eric" wrote in message
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Somebody showed me this trick a while back, but I didn't take notes.
I have what appears to be a block of text in a text-only file I want to
copy--but when you highlight it, you get a lot of blank spaces before and
after each line of text.
Does anybody know how to select only the portion that appears to be the
"block" for copying/pasting without all the extra spaces? TIA.