Though it is more difficult to accomplish with non-uniformily-spaced
characters, the ability to perform rectangular text operations would be
helpful in Word. A good example of this functionality is in the text editor,
GNU Emacs. Its ability to select, cut, copy, and paste blocks of text
spanning multiple lines and narrower than the page width is a very powerful
feature. This functionality it refers to as manipulating "rectangles". Also
see the function "M-x string-rectangle". I use Word 2003

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