Hi Steve,

Hold the Alt key while you drag. If you're very careful or very lucky,
you won't trigger the Research pane, whose shortcut is Alt+Click
(stupid move, Microsoft!) and you'll be able to select a rectangular
region of text.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 04:01:03 -0800, "smintey"
wrote:

I am trying to import a table of data from another programme into excel to
create a chart. The table that i am importing is not in table format and is
just a word document which looks like a table. Most of the data in the
document is words and symbols but I need to highlight the two collumns of
numbers only and somehow get them into individual cells in excel. I am having
real difficulty doing this as when I try to highlight the collumn and drag
down it highlights the whole document as per normal word behaviour. If anyone
has any ideas on solving my problem using any aspect of office they will be
hugely appreciated!!

Thanks everyone
Steve
Microsoft Office Word 2003