On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 19:52 +0900, Dann and Miyako wrote: > Hello. I'm a reasonably new user of Open Office and a brand-new member of > this list. I have the following question: > > How does one go about selecting text in a vertically oriented block? > Specifically, I'm opening some old text files which all contain a bunch of > space separated data. I'd like to delete the first 20 characters of each > line of data. I can't seem to find the correct key sequence for performing > that operation. In MSWord, I use Alt-N along with the mouse, but that > doesn't work here. Help, please. > > Thanks in advance.
Dann, I suggest using the regular expression feature of Find and Replace. Simply highlight the text you wish to manipulate and put the regex in the Find field and nothing is the Replace field and either use Replace All or manually use Find and Replace sequentially to get the job done. Use of regular expressions is in Help and in http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/OOo2.x/user_guide2_draft.pdf -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
