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Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated September 25, 2019)
This tip applies to Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
Here is a trick that was first introduced in Word 5 for DOS and is still valid in the program. Suppose you want to move something (a word, sentence, graphic, table, etc.) from one location in a document to another. You probably know the standard way of doing the move using cut and paste, but there is another way. You can do the move very quickly via the following:
The beauty of this technique is that the Clipboard is not involved. This means that if you had something on the Clipboard before the move, it is still there for later use; it hasn't been disturbed.
You should note that if, instead of moving, you want to just copy, all you need to do is hold down both the Shift and Ctrl keys in step 3.
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2018-01-30 18:10:47
Phil Rabichow
Hi Allen:
Just a correction. After highlighting the text:
1. Ctrl + drag will copy the text
2. Shift + drag will move the text
3. Ctrl+Shift+drag will create an OLE link to the text & bookmark the text.
Oh. I just realized that you said right click. The above works with left click. If you right click, you get a context menu giving you the choice of "move here", "copy here" & "link here"
Phil
2018-01-30 18:08:10
Phil Rabichow
Hi Allen:
Just a correction. After highlighting the text:
1. Ctrl + drag will copy the text
2. Shift + drag will move the text
3. Ctrl+Shift+drag will create an OLE link to the text & bookmark the text.
Phil
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