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From: esf00@uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Text editing on Macs
Message-ID: <6at702gB6fhZ01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 30 Nov 89 00:17:33 GMT
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In article <2668@sol.oakhill.UUCP> joej@sol.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.
>
>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

It works with 4.0. That's how I repair my fractured syntax when I write.
:-)

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