Selecting text

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Bob James

I'm using Word 2002 and Windows 2000. I swore I read someplace that
there is a way to select columns of text. Not columns in a table, but
say, columns 4 thru 7, all the way through the document. Was I
dreaming?

Bob James, Milwaukee, employed at
Medical College of Wisconsin
(e-mail address removed)
 
Hi Bob,

Press and hold ALT, then drag the mouse.

Unfortunately there's no quick way to do this all throughout
a document as with ALT+Click for a column in a long table;
it's basically one long mouse-drag task. But if you don't
need to see the detail of the text being selected, you could
speed it up by using a highly zoomed-out multi-page view in
Print Preview. In that case, once you drag across a page
boundary, the selection would show on all the pages spanned.
 
Bob

No it wasn't a dream. Insert the cursor at the beginning of the first column
to select. Then hold down the ALT key while you drag the mouse down through
the columns to the end of the selection.

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://www.mvps.org/word/

I'm using Word 2002 and Windows 2000. I swore I read someplace that
there is a way to select columns of text. Not columns in a table, but
say, columns 4 thru 7, all the way through the document. Was I
dreaming?

Bob James, Milwaukee, employed at
Medical College of Wisconsin
(e-mail address removed)
 
Mark Tangard said:
Hi Bob,

Press and hold ALT, then drag the mouse.
Click to expand...

Thanks Mark (and Terry) for the quick response. I was trying to
remember a key combination rather than a key and a mouse move.

Thanks again,

Bob James, Milwaukee, employed at
Medical College of Wisconsin
(e-mail address removed)
 
Press and hold ALT, then drag the mouse.
Thanks Mark (and Terry) for the quick response.
I was trying to remember a key combination rather
than a key and a mouse move.
Click to expand...


Hi Bob,

In that case, you can use Ctrl+Shift+F8.
This combo starts the column select mode.
Then, you can select by holding down the shift key, and using the arrow
keys.

Regards,
Klaus
 
I swear, Klaus, you must know more useful-but-hidden shortcuts
than any human being alive.....
 
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