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how does one select a block of text excluding columns of characters?

Asked by brinx

I want to select all the characters in a block of text from character position 10 through character position 70 in all lines on a page of text, ignoring or omitting all of the characters in character position 1 to 9 on each line on that page.

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Markus Thielmann (thielmann) said : 		#1

Thanks for your question.

According to my knowledge, Openoffice does not support blockwise selections.

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brinx (vk3fis) said : 		#2

Thank you Markus. It looks like a macro will have to be written to do what I want.

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GercoKees (gercokees) said : 		#3

You might want to take a look at this:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1596
target is set to version 2.4 (somewhere in 2008 probably)

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