Selecting a Vertical Block of Text
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- What Is Writer?
- The Writer interface
- Changing Document Views
- Moving Quickly through a Document
- Working with documents
- Working with text
- Selecting Items That Are Not Consecutive
- Selecting a Vertical Block of Text
- Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Text
- Finding and Replacing Text and Formatting
- Inserting Special Characters
- Inserting Dashes and Non-breaking Spaces and Hyphens
- Setting Tab Stops and Indents
- Changing the Default Tab stop Interval
- Checking Spelling and Grammar
- Using Built-in Language tools
- Using AutoCorrect
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- Using AutoText
- Formatting Text
- Formatting Pages
- Adding Comments and Graphics to a Document
- Creating a Table of Contents
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- Adding Tables, Spreadsheets, and Charts
- Adding a Movie or Sound
- Printing
- Using Mail Merge
- Tracking Changes to a Document
- Using Fields
- Linking to another part of a document
- Using Master Documents
- Creating Fill-in Forms
Selecting a Vertical Block of Text
You can select a vertical block or “column” of text that is separated by spaces or tabs (as you might see in text pasted from e-mails, program listings, or other sources), using Writer's block selection mode. To change to block selection mode, use Edit → Selection Mode → Block Area, or click several times in the status bar on STD until it changes to BLK.
Now highlight the selection, using the mouse or keyboard, as shown below.
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