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Select text column in Word
There is a shortcut out there somewhere to allow you to select only a
central block of text - that is, text that isn't necessarily already in a column, but you want to select only the middle section of a paragraph of text. Does anyone recall it? (It's not the Ctrl-Shift-F8 one-I've tried that) |
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Select text column in Word
Press the Alt key and drag using the left mouse button.
-- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "Teacher" wrote in message ups.com... There is a shortcut out there somewhere to allow you to select only a central block of text - that is, text that isn't necessarily already in a column, but you want to select only the middle section of a paragraph of text. Does anyone recall it? (It's not the Ctrl-Shift-F8 one-I've tried that) |
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Select text column in Word
Thanks, Herb, but that's not the one. The shortcut I'm thinking of
allowed you to select only the middle of the lines, not all the way to the end and then down to the next, but only the middle. It was very handy to cut and paste, for example, a column of phone numbers that you hadn't put in column format to begin with. Herb Tyson [MVP] wrote: Press the Alt key and drag using the left mouse button. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "Teacher" wrote in message ups.com... There is a shortcut out there somewhere to allow you to select only a central block of text - that is, text that isn't necessarily already in a column, but you want to select only the middle section of a paragraph of text. Does anyone recall it? (It's not the Ctrl-Shift-F8 one-I've tried that) |
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Select text column in Word
Um... yes. This *is* the shortcut you're looking for. At least, it works
fine here. With the Alt key pressed, drag using the left mouse button. This lets me select a column of letters/characters in the interior of a paragraph or whatever, even if it's not column oriented. I used it frequently. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "Teacher" wrote in message oups.com... Thanks, Herb, but that's not the one. The shortcut I'm thinking of allowed you to select only the middle of the lines, not all the way to the end and then down to the next, but only the middle. It was very handy to cut and paste, for example, a column of phone numbers that you hadn't put in column format to begin with. Herb Tyson [MVP] wrote: Press the Alt key and drag using the left mouse button. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "Teacher" wrote in message ups.com... There is a shortcut out there somewhere to allow you to select only a central block of text - that is, text that isn't necessarily already in a column, but you want to select only the middle section of a paragraph of text. Does anyone recall it? (It's not the Ctrl-Shift-F8 one-I've tried that) |
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