Keybaord shortcut for moving rows of text from one line to another

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John - 21 May 2008 20:10 GMT

When I was using Poerpoint on the PC, I was able to select a row of
text and use a keyboard shortcut (OPTION CTRL- UP/DOWN ARROW?) to move
the entire row up or down a row. I believe you can do the same in
Word. I can't seem to find it in PPT in Office 2008. Is it avaialble
and, if not, is there a AppleScript macro for this function?

Thanks,
John

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CyberTaz - 21 May 2008 22:15 GMT

I'm afraid you'll need to provide more exact and more complete
information...

By "row of text" - are you referring to a row in a table, an item in a
bulleted list, a line in a paragraph... What you mean isn't clear.

Also, PC keyboards don't have an Option key. I think you may mean
Alt+Shift+Up/Dn Arrow, but I'm not sure.

If I'm right in my assumption I'm afraid the answer is No to both questions.
PPt 2004 had equivalent keystrokes for Move Up/Move Down in lists & Outline
View, but the functionality seems to have been left out of 2008, although
it's still available in Word 2008 (Shift+Control+Up/Dn Arrow).

Unfortunately I'm not aware of an Apple Script for those operations and I'm
under the impression that keyboard assignments are a problem - but I'm not a
script-writer so I may be wrong about that. I'll leave it to someone who is
more familiar with the lingo.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

On 5/21/08 3:10 PM, in article
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<john1lai@gmail.com> wrote:

> When I was using Poerpoint on the PC, I was able to select a row of
> text and use a keyboard shortcut (OPTION CTRL- UP/DOWN ARROW?) to move
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> Thanks,
> John

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John - 22 May 2008 00:31 GMT

> I'm afraid you'll need to provide more exact and more complete
> information...
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> On 5/21/08 3:10 PM, in article
> 4e4465d5-ef17-4f5d-be77-5424b449a...@u12g2000prd.googlegroups.com, "John"

That's a shame but thanks for looking into that for me.

FYI - I'm trying to move a bulleted row but it sounds like regardless
it won't work.

Let me know what your friend says.

John

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CyberTaz - 22 May 2008 22:25 GMT

Hi John -

> FYI - I'm trying to move a bulleted row but it sounds like regardless
> it won't work.

I assume you're already aware of it, but just in case - You can drag 'n'
drop the bulleted items from one position in the list to another, both on
the slide as well as in the Outline pane.

Hold the phone!!! I just discovered something by accident while giving it
one last Old College Try:-)

Although the keystroke doesn't work in the bulleted list placeholder on the
slide (for whatever ungodly reason) it DOES work in the Outline pane:

Shift+Command+Up/Dn Arrow

That doesn't even appear to be documented anywhere - at least not that I can
find.

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HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

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Keybaord shortcut for moving rows of text from one line to another