Christian Long Tech notes and tidbits

One of my favorite features of the Komodo IDE is the ability to select a rectangular block of text. Komodo Docs: Select columns of text in Komodo by pressing the Alt key and then dragging with the mouse. You can also Alt-Shift and Click to select a rectangular block consisting of one or more columns of text.

Imagine my surprise when a fat finger on the Alt key revealed that the same thing is possible in Microsoft Word (I'm using Word 2000). See for yourself.

Just like in Komodo, you can Alt-Shift-Click, or Alt-Drag to select any arbitrary rectangular area in Word. I use this feature all the time in Komodo for code cleanup and reformatting text. It only took me seven years to figure out Word has it too!