One of the biggest secrets in Microsoft Word.

This is perhaps one of the most impressive tricks we’ve seen recently with using Microsoft Word.

Have you ever had the occasion when you needed to select a chunk of text out of a document, but it wasn’t necessarily in a straight line or list that you needed to grab?

If you’ll look at the image above as my example, let’s say we had the list of items on the left, but wanted to get rid of all the text on the right (highlighted in the blue block). The lines of text on the right are part of the lines of text that we want to keep.

We can’t just select the chunk on the right and leave the list of text on the right unselected in the document. Or can we?

Did you know if you hold the "ALT" key down while dragging your mouse in a Word document you can select the text that you specifically grab with your mouse and cursor. It doesn’t automatically jump from line to line as you extend your selection.
In the example below we held down "ALT" and then dragged the cursor from the bottom-left corner of the blue box up to the top-right corner of the box to select the text as it’s highlighted.

I then just hit the "DELETE" key and ta-da! I’ve got my list of text on the right that’s ready to be edited, all left alone in their lines of data.
There are a number of times where this has come in handy, now that you know it’s possible. Let us know where you’ve used it and how it’s helped you.