copy part of document

[mack]

Is it possible to copy the first 50 pages or so of a long document with
a menu box rather than clicking and dragging?

 

[Elliott Roper]

Is it possible to copy the first 50 pages or so of a long document with
a menu box rather than clicking and dragging?

No, but it is simple if you have enough fingers.
Go to page 50, place the insertion point after the last thing you want
to copy.
Select the first 50 pages with cmd-shift-home.
If yours is a laptop, then cmd-shift-(fn-left arrow)

I was going to suggest spiltting the window, but clicking in one and
shift clicking in the other does not select anything at all.
Word must be broken here. Surely this is supposed to work?

Could you try it mack? - and let me know.

If this does not work, shall we call it a feature request? Like a
really basic feature request. Why else would you want to split a
window?
It works fine in Excel, why not Word? Oh tell me Lord, it is just my
copy of Word that is so broken? (I'm on v.X)

Another way to select large amounts of text is to use f8 to turn on
'extend selection'. Place the insertion point at one end, then you can
use page up/down and cmd-arrows to quickly get to the other end of the
large block you want to select. cmd-. turns extend select off when you
are finished.
Sadly, cmd-opt-z for visiting the four most recent edits seems to turn
off extend selection.

Finally, extend selection works OK with find. f8 at one end then search
for the other end.

Well, that was interesting. I learned a few new tricks writing that.

 

[mack]

Thanks, Elliot, but nothing seemed to work. Did a click and drag.
Go to page 50, place the insertion point after the last thing you want
to copy.

yes
Select the first 50 pages with cmd-shift-home.

no I have a g4 powerbook--maybe some of the keys are assigned
differently.
If yours is a laptop, then cmd-shift-(fn-left arrow)
I was going to suggest spiltting the window, but clicking in one and
shift clicking in the other does not select anything at all.
Word must be broken here. Surely this is supposed to work?

Could you try it mack? - and let me know.
no


If this does not work, shall we call it a feature request? Like a
really basic feature request. Why else would you want to split a
window?
It works fine in Excel, why not Word? Oh tell me Lord, it is just my
copy of Word that is so broken? (I'm on v.X)

Another way to select large amounts of text is to use f8 to turn on
'extend selection'.
again, didn't seem to work--don't worry, I've done it chapter by
chapter, but you'd think they would have thought of this--it's so
basic.

Place the insertion point at one end, then you can
use page up/down and cmd-arrows to quickly get to the other end of the
large block you want to select. cmd-. turns extend select off when you
are finished.
Sadly, cmd-opt-z for visiting the four most recent edits seems to turn
off extend selection.

Finally, extend selection works OK with find. f8 at one end then search

for the other end.

Well, that was interesting. I learned a few new tricks writing that.

Thank you again for all your effort.
I have a question re bottom margin. Will start new topic.

 

[Elliott Roper]

no I have a g4 powerbook--maybe some of the keys are assigned
differently.

Me too. There is a special trick for Powerbooks.

press and hold cmd and shift, then, while still holding, press and hold
fn, then and only then press left-arrow. Now you know why I said it as
easy if you have enough fingers!

That is a Mac-wide thing. I can't blame Word for that. I guess the
Powerbook has to decide whether the left arrow key is doing double duty
as the home key at the moment it is pressed.

 

[Michel Bintener]

Here's yet another method, which involves a combination of clicking,
dragging and using the keyboard; I just tested this on my PowerBook, and it
works quite well.

Place the cursor at the beginning of the document, then scroll down by
clicking on the scroll bar on the right side, down to the end of the text
which you'd like to select. Then hold down the shift button and click just
behind the text, and that's it. You've now selected your text, and all you
have to do is copy/paste this text into a different document.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Another way to select large amounts of text is to use f8 to turn on
'extend selection'.
again, didn't seem to work--don't worry, I've done it chapter by
chapter, but you'd think they would have thought of this--it's so
basic.

I don't know what you wish they would have thought of, but some thoughts.

Word doesn't know what a page is--so telling it to select pages 1-50 is
unlikely to have reliable and satisfactory results. See here for more about
that.
http://daiya.mvps.org/wordpages.htm

Word does know what word, sentences, paragraphs, and sections are. If you
hit F8 twice, it will select a word‹3x, a sentence, 4x, a paragraph, 5x, a
section (section as defined by Word with a section break).

But Michel's suggestion is the most efficient/reliable/easy.

Daiya