Select vertical area for deletion with mouse

In a page of normal text in Word2000 can I drag the mouse over a vertical
rectangular area, enclosing the line content that is to the right of a
particular screen position and then delete that area, which could be a
method of removing all text from each line to the right of a particular
vertical screen position?
In other words the text looks as tho it is in columns of a table, and I want
to delete the right hand column.
However it is not in columns in a table.

TIA
Brian Tozer

Mark
Fri Sep 05 02:28:53 CDT 2003

Hi Brian,

Yes, you can. Hold down the ALT key, then click and drag your
mouse.

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Brian Tozer wrote:
>
> In a page of normal text in Word2000 can I drag the mouse over a vertical
> rectangular area, enclosing the line content that is to the right of a
> particular screen position and then delete that area, which could be a
> method of removing all text from each line to the right of a particular
> vertical screen position?
> In other words the text looks as tho it is in columns of a table, and I want
> to delete the right hand column.
> However it is not in columns in a table.
>
> TIA
> Brian Tozer