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Old 12-23-2007, 03:46 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by BluePlum View Post
If you want to copy multibal Paragraphs Highlight what you want and if you need to highlight more, Hold down SHIFT, It will allow you to highlight a differnt paragraph on a differnt part of the page without erasing your previous highlight. At the end Press CTR - V.
That doesn't work with highlighting text. Only for highlighting files and such in Explorer and other programs. As soon as you try to highlight the second piece of text you lose the first.
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