Dear Ms. Bytes

Is it possible to CUT more than one selection at a time?

Sincerely – Sheri T.

Dear Sheri T.,

MSWord has a very cool tool called “Spike.”  This feature is an extended clipboard in MSWord documents. I’m sure you are familiar with the CUT/COPY/PASTE function, right? Well, the Spike feature allows you to CUT text from several places in a document and PASTE them in a new location, all at once. So instead of performing CUT/PASTE several times, you can gather up several selections and then go to the location in your document where you want the items placed and drop them in.

To Use Spike

Start by selecting some text, then press CTRL+F3. Select another piece of text, then press CTRL+F3. Continue this process of “spiking” selections to the extended clipboard in MSWord. You can select and append several entries this the active Spike.

To PASTE the spiked entries, click in your document where you would like the entries to appear and press CTRL+SHIFT+F3 and the contents of the Spike will appear in that location.

Happy Spiking!

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