Keybaord shortcut for moving rows of text from one line to another

[John]

When I was using Poerpoint on the PC, I was able to select a row of
text and use a keyboard shortcut (OPTION CTRL- UP/DOWN ARROW?) to move
the entire row up or down a row. I believe you can do the same in
Word. I can't seem to find it in PPT in Office 2008. Is it avaialble
and, if not, is there a AppleScript macro for this function?

Thanks,
John

 

[CyberTaz]

I'm afraid you'll need to provide more exact and more complete
information...

By "row of text" - are you referring to a row in a table, an item in a
bulleted list, a line in a paragraph... What you mean isn't clear.

Also, PC keyboards don't have an Option key. I think you may mean
Alt+Shift+Up/Dn Arrow, but I'm not sure.

If I'm right in my assumption I'm afraid the answer is No to both questions.
PPt 2004 had equivalent keystrokes for Move Up/Move Down in lists & Outline
View, but the functionality seems to have been left out of 2008, although
it's still available in Word 2008 (Shift+Control+Up/Dn Arrow).

Unfortunately I'm not aware of an Apple Script for those operations and I'm
under the impression that keyboard assignments are a problem - but I'm not a
script-writer so I may be wrong about that. I'll leave it to someone who is
more familiar with the lingo.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John]

I'm afraid you'll need to provide more exact and more complete
information...

By "row of text" - are you referring to a row in a table, an item in a
bulleted list, a line in a paragraph... What you mean isn't clear.

Also, PC keyboards don't have an Option key. I think you may mean
Alt+Shift+Up/Dn Arrow, but I'm not sure.

If I'm right in my assumption I'm afraid the answer is No to both questions.
PPt 2004 had equivalent keystrokes for Move Up/Move Down in lists & Outline
View, but the functionality seems to have been left out of 2008, although
it's still available in Word 2008 (Shift+Control+Up/Dn Arrow).

Unfortunately I'm not aware of an Apple Script for those operations and I'm
under the impression that keyboard assignments are a problem - but I'm not a
script-writer so I may be wrong about that. I'll leave it to someone who is
more familiar with the lingo.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

On 5/21/08 3:10 PM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "John"

That's a shame but thanks for looking into that for me.

FYI - I'm trying to move a bulleted row but it sounds like regardless
it won't work.

Let me know what your friend says.

John

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi John -

FYI - I'm trying to move a bulleted row but it sounds like regardless
it won't work.

I assume you're already aware of it, but just in case - You can drag 'n'
drop the bulleted items from one position in the list to another, both on
the slide as well as in the Outline pane.

Hold the phone!!! I just discovered something by accident while giving it
one last Old College Try

Although the keystroke doesn't work in the bulleted list placeholder on the
slide (for whatever ungodly reason) it DOES work in the Outline pane:

Shift+Command+Up/Dn Arrow

That doesn't even appear to be documented anywhere - at least not that I can
find.