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Article #8577Re: Text editing on Macs
From: Elliott S. Frank
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1989 00:17
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1989 00:17
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In article <2668@sol.oakhill.UUCP> joej@sol.UUCP (Joe Jelemensky) writes:
>In article <1541@esquire.UUCP> yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost) writes:
>>If you cut a rectangular region, I'd like the text to the
>>right to move left to close the gap.
>
>Microsoft Word allows you to do this, if each of the lines you are cutting
>accross are terminated by a carriage return. Hold down the option key, place
>the cursor, press the mouse button and hold, drag the rectangular area. The
>cut/copy/paste. Works with 3.0.2 for sure - don't know about 4.0
It works with 4.0. That's how I repair my fractured syntax when I write.
:-)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!esf00 From: esf00@uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Text editing on Macs Message-ID: <6at702gB6fhZ01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> Date: 30 Nov 89 00:17:33 GMT References: <88714@pyramid.pyramid.com> <1630@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> <1533@esquire.UUCP> <57890@tiger.oxy.edu> <1541@esquire.UUCP> <28843@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <2913@sparky.UUCP> <2668@sol.oakhill.UUCP> Reply-To: esf00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank) Organization: The Beige Building Full of Bright Engineers, Inc. Lines: 21