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text select in table
Hello. If I have a line of text in a document, place the cursor in the
middle of the line, and hit shift-end, it selects the text from the cursor to the end of the line, leaving unselected the text before the cursor. If I do the same thing inside a table cell, it always selects all the text in the cell which isn't what I want. Is there a way to make it stop doing that? Thanks, Irwin |
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text select in table
Shift+End, selects everything to the end of the line. In the case of a
single line, or the last line, of text in the cell of a table, "everything" includes the end of cell marker, and including that marker in the selection causes the whole cell to be selected. I realise that it is not what you want, but that is the way it works. The only way around it is to use the mouse to do the selecting. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote in message ups.com... Hello. If I have a line of text in a document, place the cursor in the middle of the line, and hit shift-end, it selects the text from the cursor to the end of the line, leaving unselected the text before the cursor. If I do the same thing inside a table cell, it always selects all the text in the cell which isn't what I want. Is there a way to make it stop doing that? Thanks, Irwin |
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text select in table
Thanks. I wonder why it has to work this way. The real problem is that
I was trying to write a VBA script to do this, in which case using the mouse won't work. I could try to figure out how to extend to the end-1, but I don't know how to do that yet. If you know, I would love a tip, otherwise I will just keep struggling with it until I get it. Thanks, Irwin |
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text select in table
Actually, that does work. I was thinking it would lose where the cursor
sat in the text, but if one selects to the end and then uses the left arrow key, you get what you want. A VBA script can do that, so I have what I need. Thanks, IMF |
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text select in table
This is one way to do it using vba
Dim myrange As Range Set myrange = Selection.Cells(1).Range myrange.End = myrange.End - 1 myrange.Start = Selection.Range.Start myrange.Select But, if you do not need to select it, don't. myrange.Text will return the text that would have been selected, so you for instance, insert that text in another location by using [object].InsertBefore myrange.Text -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote in message oups.com... Actually, that does work. I was thinking it would lose where the cursor sat in the text, but if one selects to the end and then uses the left arrow key, you get what you want. A VBA script can do that, so I have what I need. Thanks, IMF |
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