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From: joej@oakhill.UUCP (Joe Jelemensky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Text editing on Macs
Message-ID: <2668@sol.oakhill.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 89 06:26:13 GMT
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Reply-To: joej@sol.UUCP (Joe Jelemensky)
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas
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In article <1541@esquire.UUCP> yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost) writes:
>If you cut a rectangular region, I'd like the text to the
>right to move left to close the gap.  And I'd like a way
>of inserting that rectangular block of text elsewhere,
>causing existing text to move to the right as necessary to make room.
>
>Do these other editors do this, or is there a way Word can be made to do this?

Microsoft Word allows you to do this, if each of the lines you are cutting
accross are terminated by a carriage return.  Hold down the option key, place
the cursor, press the mouse button and hold, drag the rectangular area.  The
cut/copy/paste.  Works with 3.0.2 for sure - don't know about 4.0

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