Alt+Shift+Up/Down Arrow

[LurfysMa]

For years I have been using alt+shift+up/down arrow to "move"
paragraphs up or down in a document. I can't remember now where I
discovered it, but I believe it is largely undocumented, but it is one
of the top 2-3 features in Word. I use it hundreds of times every day.

Anyway, it doesn't always work. Starting in Word 2000, I think, it
would no longer move text paragraphs through a table. It would move
the table rows through the text, so I had a work-around.

Now I have a document in which every time I try it, it will grab an
adjacent paragraph and move both of them. I can't figure this out.
It's just certain paragraphs.

I have checked the paragraph and style definitions for those that work
and those that don't and they seem identical.

I have checked that they are really paragraphs (and not just
linefeeds).

I have even copied the formatting (ctrl+shift+c/v) from those that
work to those that don't and they still don't work.

If I copy those paragraphs to a different document where everything is
working, those paragraphs still fail in the new document.

If I copy just the text without the paragraph mark to a different
place in the document it will work just fine, so it has to be
something in the paragraph mark.

Any ideas? This is a minor problem because I can always copy just the
text, but I would like to solve it.

I sure wish MSFT would make this an official feature. It is incredibly
handy and a powerful shortcut.

Thanks

 

[CyberTaz]

All respect for the troubleshooting you've done, but have you specifically
checked in Format>Paragraph--Line & Page Breaks for "Keep with Next"
settings or "Keep Lines Together"?

Just a reminder, but just check _one_ para at a time. If you select 2 or
more you will get an inaccurate read in the dialog box if they are not all
set the same way.

Regards |:>)

 

[LurfysMa]

All respect for the troubleshooting you've done, but have you specifically
checked in Format>Paragraph--Line & Page Breaks for "Keep with Next"
settings or "Keep Lines Together"?

Yes, I should have mentioned that as well. All of the problem
paragraphs have both "Keep lines together" and "Keep with next"
unchecked.

I just ran another test. I copied two of the problem paragraphs
(including paragraph marks) to another document where all of the
paragraphs work properly. Not only do they fail in the new document,
but they cause the paragraph just ahead of them to fail as well.