You’ll notice that the pasted content will come with the formatting you applied, including the color you used to highlight the text. Each separate text block will be pasted as a new paragraph.
Press Ctrl + V to paste the highlighted, selected text into the new document. Close the dialogue box, then click Ctrl + C to copy all the highlighted text blocks.Ĩ. In my case Word found six items that matched my search criteria.ħ. It will then select all the highlighted text blocks and notify you of the selected items. Microsoft Word will now scan the document for all the highlighted text blocks. Click the “Find in” drop-down, then select “Main document” from the menu that will pop up.Ħ. The “highlight” format will now appear below the “Find what” edit box. Click the “Format” drop-down, then select “Highlight” from the menu options.ĥ. Doing so will expand the dialogue box and open up more options. Click the “Find” tab, followed by the “More” option.Ĥ. A “Find and Replace” dialogue box will pop up. The next step is to find and select all the highlighted text.
Highlight all the text blocks you want to copy throughout the article.ģ. If you want to use a different color, you can select one from the available colors by clicking on it. By default, the highlighter pen is set to highlight text in Yellow when you click it.Ģ. Open the source document, and highlight the text you want to copy throughout the document.
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But did you know that you can also use this tool to copy and paste text from multiple text selections in Word? We’ll show you how to do it.ġ. You have probably used the highlighter pen to highlight your favorite phrases or some sections that need special attention in a Word document. However, whenever you press Ctrl + F3 to place a block of content to Spike, you can make it a habit to press Ctrl + Z to undo the cut, and this won’t remove the content from Spike.Īlso read: How to Recover a Lost Microsoft Word Document For instance, when you press the Ctrl + F3 keys, Spike will cut rather that copy content from the source document. This technique is the easiest, but it does have some limitations. Use Ctrl + Shift + F3 to paste all the copied blocks into a blank document.Įven if you copied text from twenty different locations, Spike will paste them all at once in your new document, with the ones you copied first appearing on top, and in that order. Repeat this process until you have copied all the text blocks you want from the source document.Ĥ. Highlight the next block of text that you want to copy, and press Ctrl + F3 to add it to the Clipboard. Press Ctrl + F3 to copy the text into Spike.ģ. Select the block of text that you want to copy.Ģ.
Spike is easy to use and works with both text and graphics. This lesser-known feature lets you copy texts from multiple selections to the Clipboard, then paste them as a group to a new location. In Microsoft Word the Clipboard has an extended feature called Spike. In this tutorial, we’ll show you two easy methods you can use to copy and paste text from multiple text selections in Microsoft Word.Īlso read: How to Properly Style Text in Microsoft Word Method 1: Use Spike However, there is a way you can copy and paste text from multiple locations all at once. What’s more annoying is that if you copy text from multiple locations, when it comes to pasting, Word will only paste the contents of the last selection by default.
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