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From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Multiple word selects
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Date: 31 Jul 90 13:54:16 GMT
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In-reply-to: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)

In article <149461@felix.UUCP>, kehr@felix (Shirley Kehr) writes:
>"How can I select several items (words or characters) at once.
>"
>"Ex.  If I have 15 words I want to BOLD, instead of select one, goto format,
>"     bold that item, then select another, goto format .... repeat 13 more
>"     times,  how can I select several words at the same time, and do one
>"     format-bold commend.
>"
>I'm not aware of any text processing program or tool that let's you do this
>but at least Word doesn't. 

I believe that the new version of Nisus (3.0) will be able to handle
discontinuous selections (at least the ads claim it will).

Even the current version, though, can be made to do something like
what the original poster wants, especially if the words he needs to
bold-face follow some regular pattern.  It's trivial to have Nisus
search for, say, all uppercase words and bold-face them (or words that
start with a capital letter, etc.).  Nisus' builtin grep (and the user
interface that makes grep painless to use) is one of its strongest
features. 

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