>>Was it Wordstar that people raved about way back when? For sure it seemed to have more than a moment of glory. I was still a mainframe bigot ('PC, who needs one of those toys') back then so I don't know.
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>A trip down memory lane.....
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>WordStar was my favorite way back when, especially since I did mostly text editting rather than word processing. I was really upset when Word Perfect supplanted it for reasons that (at least to me) were more marketing ploys than technical improvements.
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>It had one feature that I haven't been able to find in more modern products. With (I think) Ctrl-K-I you were able to cut and paste rectangular blocks (the part denoted with caps in my example). It was very useful for me in editting SDF type text files. If anybody knows how to do this in Word (or the VFP editor) I'd appreciate the tip.
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>aaaBBBCCCCDDDDeeeeffff
>aaaBBBCCCCDDDDeeeeffff
>aaaBBBCCCCDDDDeeeeffff
>aaaBBBCCCCDDDDeeeeffff
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You could make a VBA macro that could work like this:
Highlight the part of the first line.
Do a keystroke that runs the macro to "cut".
It first prompts for the number of rows.
It makes a note of where it is and how many chars are highlighted.
All of the variables would have to be unique and public.
Then goto where you want this information pasted.
Do a keystroke that runs the macro to "paste".
Then have code that does cut and paste for each of the rows.
You have to make sure you put a special field where you start and get rid of it at the end or find some other way to make sure your pasting didn't modify where the macro thinks it should start.
Doesn't sound too hard to do, but could be very time consuming.