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Re: Not all in Word 4 select

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From: Derek LeLash
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 02:43
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In article <1992Sep7.094252.8691@vax.oxford.ac.uk> banks@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
>Various people have suggested command+option m or the cursor to the
>far left of the screen as the way to perform 'select all' in  Word 4.
>A word of warning, however: Microsoft have a very particular use of
>the word 'all', which *excludes* footnotes, page numbers and - I
>think - headers and footers (you have to open the windows for these
>and then use your preferred 'select all' command again).
>
Quite true, and another good reason to use styles for such sweeping format
changes.  Explaining these fully is beyond the scope of one posting (and
seemingly most books about Word :-), but one of these days I may cobble
together a Word FAQ list that would cover it.  Any interest out there?

Derek
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