Vertial select is available in console (DOS) version of Sqlplus too. If you haven't enabled QuickEdit mode, you have to go to Edit->Mark every time you want to select. Addition to my last message. sqlplus in UNIX/Linux terminal may also suffer from the problem of characters disappearing when multiple chr(13) are in the output, e.g. $ sqlplus / as sysdba SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Fri Feb 25 10:09:47 2011 ... SQL> select 'x'||chr(13)||'y'||chr(13)||'z' from dual; 'X'|| ----- z Yong Huang --- On Fri, 2/25/11, Michael Moore <michaeljmoore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Also in the old win SQLPLUS you could highlight a column in the middle of the window and copy it. That was very useful.Mike