Delete to End of Document

[MC]

What's the quickest way to Delete to End of Document?

This was a command in WordPerfect (Mac) that I miss.

 

[Bates]

What's the quickest way to Delete to End of Document?

This was a command in WordPerfect (Mac) that I miss.

Hi MC,

put your cursor where you want to start deleting from. Hold Shift,
Command, and press End. This should select everything from where you
were to the end of the document. Then just hit delete.

Neil

 

[Phillip Jones]

Command-A (Command is Apple key or Cloverleaf key) which stand s for
select all The hit Delete key.

What's the quickest way to Delete to End of Document?

This was a command in WordPerfect (Mac) that I miss.

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[Bates]

Command-A (Command is Apple key or Cloverleaf key) which stand s for
select all The hit Delete key.



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Hi Phillip,

That only works though if you want to delete everything! If MC is
looking to delete down from a specific point, this method will also
delete everything above it.

 

[Bill Weylock]

Follow Neil¹s suggestion. That¹s the way. BUT...

Be aware that you may want to be careful not to delete the very last
paragraph return mark. Word stores all of the document formatting in that
one little mark. If you delete it, you will revert to your normal template.
At least that was true in 2004. I assume the same for 2008.

What's the quickest way to Delete to End of Document?

This was a command in WordPerfect (Mac) that I miss.

Best,

Bill
Imac 2.8Ghz -10.5.1
Office 2008/2003 - Windows XP Pro SP2

 

[CyberTaz]

Good point Bill - In fact, I would tend to think that might be why Word
doesn't support such a command. WordPerfect uses a commpletely different
structure. I've not tested it in 2008 either, but have no doubt that the
same is true there.

 

[Bates]

Follow Neil¹s suggestion. That¹s the way. BUT...

Be aware that you may want to be careful not to delete the very last
paragraph return mark. Word stores all of the document formatting in that
one little mark. If you delete it, you will revert to your normal template..
At least that was true in 2004. I assume the same for 2008.




Best,

Bill
Imac 2.8Ghz -10.5.1
Office 2008/2003 - Windows XP Pro SP2

Bill - I did not know that - thanks a bunch for pointing that out. So
basically select to the bottom then back off one character?

 

[MC]

Command-A (Command is Apple key or Cloverleaf key) which stand s for
select all The hit Delete key.

This selects the whole document, surely? What I want to do is delete to
the endof the document from wherever I happen to have the insertion
point. Not the same thing at all.

 

[MC]

That only works though if you want to delete everything! If MC is
looking to delete down from a specific point, this method will also
delete everything above it.

That is what I'm looking to do.

 

[MC]

put your cursor where you want to start deleting from. Hold Shift,
Command, and press End. This should select everything from where you
were to the end of the document. Then just hit delete.

THANK you!

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Bill:

Don't worry about it Word will not allow that to be "deleted". You can
avoid "copying" it, but you cannot 'delete' it.

This is a complex subject, and it is not covered at all well in the Word
help, or in the Microsoft web information. For those who are interested,
the following is how it "really" works

The reason you cannot delete the default section break is that a paragraph
mark is a "virtual character". It is not actually present in the document.

Word generates it, as a 'signpost', to show that "there is a formatting
information that applies to the text ending at this point." A bit like the
sign "Caution, buried electricity cables below" that you may see beside a
road.

In fact, the container itself is in the header information of the document.
In the old .doc format, it was in the first 1500 bytes. In the new XML
format, it's in the attached Style Sheet that you can find if you unzip a
..docx file.

The only thing that occurs at the paragraph marker is a binary pointer that
indicates which parts of the formatting information apply here. That
pointer calls in the Default Section Break for the document, which contains
all the page layout parameters. It also calls in the style sheet and the
font table and one or two other essentials

Word won't allow that last paragraph mark (or the formatting pointer
concealed below it) to be deleted, because to do so would turn the file into
something that was not a Word document.

What you may have been thinking about was all the "other" section breaks in
the document. These appear as Section Break characters in the file. Word
WILL allow you to delete these. And if you do, you will get some sudden
side-effects.

Each time you delete a section break, the page layout formatting from the
section break BELOW it in the file is applied to the text above where it
was. An easy way of thinking about that is that the section break ends the
section to which it applies. Since the LAST section break (the document's
Default Section Break...) never appears in the document, you can never
delete it.

If you delete all the visible section breaks in the document, the formatting
from the Default Section Break will be applied to the whole document.

That formatting "might" have originally come from the Normal template, or it
may have come from a different template used to create the document.
Wherever it came from, it may have been altered by the author. If it has,
it will stay that way. A document makes no further reference to its
template after it has been created.

Hope this helps

Follow Neil¹s suggestion. That¹s the way. BUT...

Be aware that you may want to be careful not to delete the very last
paragraph return mark. Word stores all of the document formatting in that
one little mark. If you delete it, you will revert to your normal template.
At least that was true in 2004. I assume the same for 2008.




Best,

Bill
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Office 2008/2003 - Windows XP Pro SP2

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[Phillip Jones]

in that case click at beginning of section you want to delete.
Then scroll to end of section you want to delete and shift click then
hit delete.

Hi Phillip,

That only works though if you want to delete everything! If MC is
looking to delete down from a specific point, this method will also
delete everything above it.

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[Phillip Jones]

go to section you want to start delete.

click mouse at beginning of section you want to delete.

go to end of section you want to delete and shift click at last letter
of what you want to delete.

Hit delete

you can delete non continuous sections by going to another sect and
Command click then shift click and end of next section. once you have
selected all the items you want to delete hit delete.

This selects the whole document, surely? What I want to do is delete to
the endof the document from wherever I happen to have the insertion
point. Not the same thing at all.

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