Working With Column Blocks

Working With Column Blocks

Atlantis is able to work not only with ordinary selection of text but with column blocks too.

An ordinary selection is a fragment of the document enclosed between two cursor positions.

A column block is a fragment of the document enclosed within a rectangular area.

The Column Block support in Atlantis has some specifics: column blocks are not permanent. In other words, after the operation on a column block is performed, this column block is unselected.

So before selecting a column block, you should decide which operation on this block you want to perform.

Atlantis supports the following operations on column blocks.

  1. Copy a Column Block to the Clipboard – hold down the Alt key and select the desired column block with the mouse.
    After you released the mouse, the selected column block is copied to the clipboard.
    After this you can paste it to the desired place of this or another document as usually.
  2. Delete a Column Block – hold down both Alt and Ctrl keys, select the desired column with the mouse.
    The highlighted block of text will be automatically deleted.
  3. Format a Column Block – turn on the Format By Template mode, hold down the Alt key and select the desired column block with the mouse.
  4. Calculate the Sum of a Column of Numbers – hold down the Alt , Ctrl and Shift keys simultaneously, select the column of numbers with the mouse.
    If all the numbers from the selected column are valid, their sum will be placed onto the clipboard.
    Use the Ctrl+V or Shift+Ins keys to paste the sum to your document.
    Click here to read about Hot Calculator.

Tip:

When the Zigzag Block Selection Mode option (the Tools | Options... command, Edit tab) is on, a column block is displayed so that you could see which characters are actually selected and which are not.

When this option is off, a column block is displayed as an ordinary rectangle.

See also...

Selecting Text