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Ten Top Word Tips

Cruise through your work with these ten timesaving Microsoft Word tips.

By Jim Welp, PCWorld   

9. An Alt-ernate Way to Select

You don't often need to select a vertical block of text in Word--but when you do, you'll be frustrated if you don't know the trick. If you've ever opened a long document with unwanted periods or other characters at the beginning of each line, you know what I'm talking about. You could delete the undesired characters manually, line by line, but there is a much faster way: Hold down the Alt key while you click the far left side of the desired column's top line and drag down and to the right to extend the selection over the unwanted text. Once you've made your selection, you can send that text to perdition's flames by pressing the Delete key.

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