Brian,
As usual, a very complete and accurate response. Thanks!
All four of the techniques that you listed for Windows work on Mac
also. The Mac "Alt" key is labeled "Option".
--Fred
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Brian Barker wrote:
At 11:40 14/02/2010 -0800, Gianvittorio Zandona' wrote:
I am looking at switching from Word to OpenOffice Writer and there is
one function in Word I have yet to find in OpenOffice and wonder
whether you could help me. In Word I can select a rectangle of text
without that it needs to be a table (you do that with Ctrl+Alt and
left mouse), how do I do that in Writer?
On Windows systems, you can just use Alt+left-mouse-drag.
Alternatively (and on other systems), you need first to change the
selection mode to "Block Area"; then you can select a block by simply
dragging the mouse in the usual way. You can do this in a number of
ways:
o Go to Edit | Selection Mode > | Block Area.
o Press Alt+Shift+F8 or Ctrl+Shift+F8.
o Click the selection mode indicator in the Status Bar at the foot of
the Writer window. (It probably says "STD".) You can cycle between
Standard, Extension, Additional selection, and Block selection modes.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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