I want to start a search from the insertion point and extend the
selection from that point to the found item. That is, all the text from
the start point to the found item will be selected. (It's called extend
selection in the WP context, where I come from.)

Thanks.

David

Hi Fscodave,

> I want to start a search from the insertion point and extend the
> selection from that point to the found item. That is, all the text from
> the start point to the found item will be selected. (It's called extend
> selection in the WP context, where I come from.)
>
Double click the EXT entry in the status bar or press F8 to turn on the
Extension mode. Edit/Find (or Ctrl+F), enter the search term, "Find
Next".

To turn off the mode, double-click the button in the status bar or press
Esc.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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It's called ExtendSelection in Word to. Try the F8 key followed by the
character you want to Extend to. Extend remains active until you press the
ESC key. So If you want to extend sentence by sentence, you press F8 and
then . (stop). If you press . (stop) again, it will select the next sentence
too (assuming there are no other stops in the sentence, of course).

If you repeatedly press F8, it will select Word, sentence, paragraph,
section/document in ascending order.

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://word.mvps.org/

"fscodave" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I want to start a search from the insertion point and extend the
> selection from that point to the found item. That is, all the text from
> the start point to the found item will be selected. (It's called extend
> selection in the WP context, where I come from.)
>
> Thanks.
>
> David
>