Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven!mimsy!mojo!russotto From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Nisus vs MS Word Message-ID: <1991Apr11.212105.3437@eng.umd.edu> Date: 11 Apr 91 21:21:05 GMT References: <1991Apr10.132920.18999@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (C-News) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 19 In article hedstrom@sirius.UVic.CA (Brad Hedstrom) writes: >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. It's in version 4.0 docs. -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.