Using spike only moves text

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Using XP and Office 2003

Trying to use the Spike to copy non-adjacent material from one document to
another. However, CTRL + F3 erases the text from my original document. Is
there any way to copy rather than move text using the Spike?
 
Using XP and Office 2003

Trying to use the Spike to copy non-adjacent material from one document to
another. However, CTRL + F3 erases the text from my original document. Is
there any way to copy rather than move text using the Spike?
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No, and never has been. (The Spike is a very old feature.) You can press Ctrl+Z
after each cut to put the material back; or you can close the source document
and answer No to the save prompt so the cuts aren't saved. Neither of these
actions is automatic, though, and it's easy to forget.
 
Thanks for the info.



Jay Freedman said:
No, and never has been. (The Spike is a very old feature.) You can press
Ctrl+Z
after each cut to put the material back; or you can close the source
document
and answer No to the save prompt so the cuts aren't saved. Neither of
these
actions is automatic, though, and it's easy to forget.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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Note, however, that in Word 2003 you don't need to use the Spike to copy
noncontiguous text, as Word 2003 (and several previous versions) allow you
to select noncontiguous passages by pressing Ctrl after the first selection.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 
Not true in Word 2007????



Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
Note, however, that in Word 2003 you don't need to use the Spike to copy
noncontiguous text, as Word 2003 (and several previous versions) allow you
to select noncontiguous passages by pressing Ctrl after the first
selection.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
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I've always used the CTRL option to select non-adjacent text and actually
wondered what The Spike was for. Someone just told me about it and asked me
to check it out for them.
 
Spike is a legacy from the days when paper receipts came in and were stuck
on a spike in the order they arrived (if you remembered not to stick it
through your hand). It has been around Word since at least Word 2 (and
possibly previous versions too).

As the other say, you can use Spike to collect an array of non-contiguous
text and drop it all into another document. Just close the original document
without saving it to retain all the spiked text.

Terry Farrell
 
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