atw: Re: Alt + drag to select column of text --WTF?

Terry,
Your issue articulates with a particular gripe of mine:
I don't know which version it happened in (suspect 2002) but the
Alt+click function was assigned to launching the 'Research' function in
MS Office products.

The former role of this shortcut was to select a table column
(Alt+double-click selected the whole table). This shortcut was extremely
useful to me (my users just _lerve_ putting stuff in tables, that go for
page after page after page...). It was a great way of by-passing tables
(simply select the table and press the up-arrow key) and of course for
operating on them.

AFAIK, you can still use Alt-cursor to select a column of para text. You
just have to be really careful to engage the cursor before touching the
Alt key (click+Alt rather than Alt+click); otherwise you launch Research
and get sent off to Microsoft's forking website.

Thanks for listening ...

-----Original Message-----
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Terry D
Sent: Thursday, 25 May 2006 16:57 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Alt + drag to select column of text --WTF?

What's happened to the Alt + drag function for
selection a column on non-table text? I use this
regularly to remove multiple lines of tabs, manually
entered numbers and spaces etc. Today the drag looks
like it's working until I release the mouse button at
which time the "Research" task 'pain' opens.

I've got a 93-page cr@p doc in which all of the margin
indents have been created using tabs or spaces, list
numbers manually added and the headings are all based
on Normal style (therefore, the TOC was typed, not
generated). Blah!!! I'm using Word 2003 SP2

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Terry




                
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