Re: [users] Selecting text vertically

2006-04-07 Thread Rich
i didn't see the start of this discussion, so maybe this already was brough up. you could vote on this issue : http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1596 Dann and Miyako wrote: Thanks for the help. I've been away from this mail account for a couple of days, so haven't answered soone

RE: [users] Selecting text vertically

2006-04-07 Thread Dann and Miyako
Thanks for the help. I've been away from this mail account for a couple of days, so haven't answered sooner. Regex worked up to a point. The rest I deleted by hand. Dann I suggest using the regular expression feature of Find and Replace. Simply highlight the text you wish to manipulate and pu

Re: [users] Selecting text vertically

2006-04-03 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 19:52 +0900, Dann and Miyako wrote: > Hello. I'm a reasonably new user of Open Office and a brand-new member of > this list. I have the following question: > > How does one go about selecting text in a vertically oriented block? > Specifically, I'm opening some old text fil

[users] Selecting text vertically

2006-04-03 Thread Dann and Miyako
Hello. I'm a reasonably new user of Open Office and a brand-new member of this list. I have the following question: How does one go about selecting text in a vertically oriented block? Specifically, I'm opening some old text files which all contain a bunch of space separated data. I'd like to d