How do I highlight numbers that include decimals

[dnvreldrdg]

Hope this makes sense! I am copy prices and then pasting them to another
area. These are prices on over a thousand items on my website so I'm trying
to speed things up. I usually working in code view and normally if you have a
group of numbers like, 12345, I can click twice on them and those will
automatically be highlighted/selected even if there is a letter or other
symbol directly next to them. But if there is a decimal included, such as
12.95, this doesn't work. You can only select the numbers to the left or the
right or if you click a couple more times the whole line of text or code will
be selected. So, is there an option somewhere to get this to work the way I
want it too? What I am doing now, is to click on the outside edge and drag
the cursor accross to select the price, then copy it. This may not sound like
a problem but when doing it hundreds of times every second counts. I can
double click a group of number much quicker than it takes to focus on
dragging the cursor across them. Thanks, Denver

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

Unfortunately, there won't be much you can do different in FP or some
setting you can make there. The OS itself tries to smartly recognize certain
characters as delimiters to ease copying. This is one of those cases where
the delimiter does not help for numeric content. What I often do is
left-click before the first character and do a shift + end to highlight
everything to the end of the line, of course this works best in a document
where the numbers are at the end of a line.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage