Is there a way to swap text?

[Guest]

Could I highlight the selected text and then hit a "swap" button and then
highlight the other selected text that I want to swap with, and then finally
hit the "swap" button again and effectively switch the text? This would
eliminate the having to cut and paste twice.

 

[Jezebel]

No.

 

[Jay Freedman]

That's the short answer. To be more complete, it would be possible to
write a macro to do something like that, but making sure that it operated
"correctly" in all circumstances -- transferring selections with different
styles, non-text objects, selections in headers/footers/comments, etc. --
would be a lot more work than I'd care to put into it.

 

[Guest]

I agree. I think this is a great idea and it would be so helpful to have a
shortcut that could do this. Highlight, CTRL highlight, then click swap. I
would use this feature alot.

 

[Guest]

Jay

I would really like to do this too. I would only be delaing with plain text
in the document. Ideally I would like to highlight text and have a macro to
delete the remaining text that was left. How could I do that?

Many thanks