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
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- 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
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- 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.
Figure 44: Selecting a vertical block of text
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