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Word needs rectangle text manipulations (like emacs)
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 ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Word needs rectangle text manipulations (like 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. Have you ever held down the ALT key while attempting to do this? Type "selecting text" in Word Help for more information. |
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Word needs rectangle text manipulations (like emacs)
That feature has been in Word for a number of releases, although it's harder
to use in Word 2003 because Microsoft made a mistake... Hold down the Alt key while you drag a rectangle around the text you want to select. In earlier versions this selection method just worked, no problem. In Word 2003, Alt+click on text sends the text to the Research task pane, so you have to be very careful to continue to hold the Alt key through the entire click-drag-release cycle -- and if you try to drag a rectangle that's only one character wide, even that caution won't prevent the Research pane from grabbing the text. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. alw wrote: 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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