Tip #4693 - Drag and Drop with a Right Click? Printer Friendly Version | E-Mail This Tip
Drag
and Drop with a Right Click?
Yep, you read
that right. I said right click!
We often find
ourselves moving text in MS Word with a quick drag and drop, but did
you know if you use a right click instead of a left click, Word will
offer you far more?
The next time
you want to move or even copy your text, simply follow these steps:
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Move
your mouse pointer over the highlighted text.
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Drag
the text to a new location.
When you release
the right mouse button, you won't see an instant move in the text
like you normally would. Instead, you'll see a small menu pop open.
People with
older versions of Word will see this:
If you're using
Word 2007, you'll see this:
To
complete the process, make a choice from the menu.
The obvious choices
of Move Here and Copy Here really
don't need an explanation. They work exactly as you'd expect.
The Link
Here choice is an interesting bonus to the concept of copy/paste.
Linking the text will not only copy the text, but it also creates
a link between the copy and the original. That gives you the benefit
of updating. Linked text will automatically update to match the original
text whenever it's changed. Very cool!
For some of you,
there's also the Create Hyperlink Here choice. That
one will make the text in the new location a clickable link that takes
the cursor back to the original. Now, changes in the original text
will not automatically update in the hyperlink text. Once it's created,
you have to make all your changes manually.
And, of course,
there's the ever popular Cancel choice at the bottom.
That one's there just in case you decide the whole thing is a bad
idea!
Now, if only we
could have a cancel option on a few of the non-computer decisions
we seem to make all too frequently!
~ April
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