14th September 2000

Coming from the "Paragraph Pairs" department, Lockergnomie Dwight Porter worms his way through a Microsoft Word shortcut. When I first learned how to type, we were instructed never to look down at the keys. That was back in the day when it took over ten minutes to warm up a typewriter. Thankfully, hitting backspace doesn't make as much noise as it once did. Oh brother! If you find yourself consistently manipulating entire paragraphs at a time, perhaps there's a quicker way to cut and paste your words in Word. Position the cursor [I-bar] anywhere in the paragraph and hold down ALT+SHIFT. Now, use the Up and Down arrow keys to move that block of text around within the document. Good news: the paragraph will never stop in the middle of another paragraph. NOTE: hitting the Left and Right arrow keys will change the style of the selected text.