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From: long@rainbo.enet.dec.com (Richard C. Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Text editing on Macs
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Date: 28 Nov 89 16:42:41 GMT
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In article <2668@sol.oakhill.UUCP>, joej@oakhill.UUCP (Joe Jelemensky) writes...
>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.

>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

Yes, this works with Word 4.0.  It's a great feature.  I use it to re-format
tables that were created using the "space-between-columns" method, like so:

Text for column    Text for column   Text for column
one                two               three

I just use the rectangular cut to slice out each column, remove extra carriage
returns, then create a table from paragraphs.  Voila!

Good stuff.

Rich

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