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Selecting Text Right Down the Middle!
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in tabular form for this lesson. I used to think, "Why can't I
select just the middle section of a document, instead of only adjacent
sections?" (But Steve, you might ask, why would you want to do that?
Are you crazy!?) No, I'm not! Well, maybe just a little, but look again at
the tabbed information you just created in the lesson, "Converting
a Table to Text". Suppose you just wanted to copy the Wins
statistics. How are you supposed to extract just that information only?
The answer is simple...just select "Right Down the Middle".
Here's how you do it. First, get out your tabbed information we made in
the lesson "Converting a Table to Text"... |
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word "Wins". Now hold the [Alt] key down and click
and hold the left mouse button. Now move your mouse so you begin to select
text to the right and down. You can highlight the entire "Wins"
column that way. Once you are done highlighting the text you want, let go
of the mouse button and [Alt] key. |
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Now, right-click somewhere in the
highlighted text and select copy (or go to "Edit" , then
down to "copy" on the menu bar). You can now paste this
information into another area in the document, or even into another
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| Why might you need this, you ask? Well, if you
have, for instance, a tabbed list of sales information, you might just
want to paste one column of the information in to a memo or summary
document, perhaps a monthly total column. You can even paste the
information into an Excel spreadsheet. Since the copied information
was formatted in tabular form, the pasted information will automatically
go into separate cells! Try it out, and see what you can
come up with! Once the data from the Word document is transferred into
Excel, you can do calculations on the numbers. |
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Here's one further suggestion. Use this technique to select both the
Team Name and the Wins column. Now when you paste into Excel, you will get
two columns of data. Manipulate at will! |
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