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Is there a way to swap text?
Could I highlight the selected text and then hit a "swap" button and then
highlight the other selected text that I want to swap with, and then finally hit the "swap" button again and effectively switch the text? This would eliminate the having to cut and paste twice. |
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No.
"Nina" wrote in message ... Could I highlight the selected text and then hit a "swap" button and then highlight the other selected text that I want to swap with, and then finally hit the "swap" button again and effectively switch the text? This would eliminate the having to cut and paste twice. |
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That's the short answer. :-) To be more complete, it would be possible to
write a macro to do something like that, but making sure that it operated "correctly" in all circumstances -- transferring selections with different styles, non-text objects, selections in headers/footers/comments, etc. -- would be a lot more work than I'd care to put into it. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Jezebel wrote: No. "Nina" wrote in message ... Could I highlight the selected text and then hit a "swap" button and then highlight the other selected text that I want to swap with, and then finally hit the "swap" button again and effectively switch the text? This would eliminate the having to cut and paste twice. |
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I agree. I think this is a great idea and it would be so helpful to have a
shortcut that could do this. Highlight, CTRL highlight, then click swap. I would use this feature alot. "Nina" wrote: Could I highlight the selected text and then hit a "swap" button and then highlight the other selected text that I want to swap with, and then finally hit the "swap" button again and effectively switch the text? This would eliminate the having to cut and paste twice. |
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Is there a way to swap text?
Jay
I would really like to do this too. I would only be delaing with plain text in the document. Ideally I would like to highlight text and have a macro to delete the remaining text that was left. How could I do that? Many thanks "Jay Freedman" wrote: That's the short answer. :-) To be more complete, it would be possible to write a macro to do something like that, but making sure that it operated "correctly" in all circumstances -- transferring selections with different styles, non-text objects, selections in headers/footers/comments, etc. -- would be a lot more work than I'd care to put into it. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Jezebel wrote: No. "Nina" wrote in message ... Could I highlight the selected text and then hit a "swap" button and then highlight the other selected text that I want to swap with, and then finally hit the "swap" button again and effectively switch the text? This would eliminate the having to cut and paste twice. |
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