Hi counselor, I didn't object at all to Dean's suggestion of using a period as a search term or whatever. I just said it seemed more like a worksround than anything else. That's all. That didn't consitute an objection. No worries. As for the virtues of WP, well, what can you do. It's a different culture. Law is to Word as Mac is to PC, more or less. Different cultures. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Spratt" <A.Spratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 5:36 PM Subject: Re: text selection with f8 Yardbird, I'm not sure that I understand your objection to Dean's suggestion, although it's possible I'm not fully understanding Dean's suggestion, either, though it's good to know the function exists in MS Word. As you correctly thought you recalled, selection by sentence, as well as paragraph and other criteria, was and remains a function in WordPerfect. Just one more reason why I prefer it over MS Word. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Well, that's certainly interesting. Thanks. Not that I would've minded there being just a real key press that meant "to end of sentence," but this is a clever workaround, as I see it, and by gosh, I guess it'll have to do. :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean Martineau" <dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> the trick with Extend Select mode in Word is that you can punch a key and select all the text up to that character. So hit F8 to turn extended Select Mode on, then hit a period, and you've selected up to the end of the current sentence. You can repeat this keystroke as often as you want to select consecutive sentences, and you can use any other keystroke and keep extending the selection. Dean -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.4.0/761 - Release Date: 4/14/2007 9:36 PM -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx