selecting different words within a text?

[galdcourse2]

is there any way that I can select different words within a text at the
same time - that is to say words that are not necessarily beside each
other. I've tried but can't work it out - perhaps it's not possible!
cheers
j

 

[Tony Jollans]

It isn't often of much use but select the first word you want and then press
and hold the Ctrl key and use the mouse to go and select other words by
clicking at the start and moving to the end and releasing (the mouse) for
each one.

Or, to select a block of text, just pres Alt and select it with the mouse.

 

[Greg]

Tony,

Not sure of the OPs version. I think this feature was first available
with Word 2003 (maybe 2002).

 

[Tony Jollans]

Well, fancy that!

It isn't something I do in Word, but as it's pretty common functionality
across apps I just assumed it was the same in Word; a quick check on Word
2000 tells me you are correct.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I thought this was introduced in Word 97, but a KB article says differently.
It's definitely been around since Word 2002, though.

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[galdcourse2]

It isn't often of much use but select the first word you want and then press
and hold the Ctrl key and use the mouse to go and select other words by
clicking at the start and moving to the end and releasing (the mouse) for
each one.

Or, to select a block of text, just pres Alt and select it with the mouse.

thanks anyway

 

[Tony Jollans]

As noted by Greg and Suzanne this is version-dependent. What version of Word
are you using?

--
Enjoy,
Tony


subsequent word till i press the mouse for the second time

 

[galdcourse2]

word 2000
what I would like to do is to select three or four different words in
this sentence at the same time.
cheers