>>I need a text editor that allows for vertical copy of text I.e. One column of data from a text that 4 or 5 columns. Suggestions?
Assuming columns are delimited, try opening in Excel or OpenOffice Calc...
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1