Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!van-bc!ubc-cs!news.UVic.CA!sirius!hedstrom From: hedstrom@sirius.UVic.CA (Brad Hedstrom) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Nisus vs MS Word Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 91 20:36:09 GMT References: <1991Apr10.132920.18999@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@sol.UVic.CA Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: rolf@sparc1's message of 10 Apr 91 13:29:20 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: jacob.uvic.ca In article <1991Apr10.132920.18999@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> rolf@sparc1 (Rolf Wilson) writes: >>undos and such. The best thing is the option-drag rectangle select...its >>SUCH a great thing that I've never seen in a WP before. I got Nisus 3.04 > If I understand you correctly, MS Word has the same feature. By > holding down the option key while dragging over a rectangle, you can > select such things as the third column of numbers (which you can then > sort on, or whatever). No RTFM flames, please; I sold my copy of Word so I can't look this up. I'm curious, is this vertical selection a documented feature in Word? I don't recall seeing it when I read the Word manuals a couple of years ago. -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Brad Hedstrom Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Victoria Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Internet: hedstrom@sirius.UVic.CA (a.k.a. Brazil North) UUCP: ...!{uw-beaver,ubc-visions,ubc-cs}!sirius.UVic.CA!hedstrom "A no smoking section in a restaurant is as effective as a no chlorine section in a swimming pool."