Let’s say you’ve copied and pasted an enormous block of text from a document in such a way that you end up with bullet points or numbered lists or a column of data that you don’t want. For example, you might need to turn a manually entered numbered list into an automatic one, or remove the numbering all together. To go through manually and delete them is slow and painful, particularly when you’ve got a list of nearly 100 items. You can’t select just the numbers without selecting the rest of the paragraph.
But oh yes you can. In Word, you can in fact select an area of the screen graphically by holding down the ALT key while you select with the mouse, as in the example below (the blue area has been selected this way).
