How to select a vertical block of text in Microsoft Word 2007

I was reading a book on Microsoft office Word 2007 when I came across this tip. It was a new piece of information for me so I thought I should share it with you all my friends. The tip is that if you click and drag with your left mouse button while holding down the Alt key on your keyboard, then you can select a vertical block of text in your document. For more explanation, please see the following screenshot.

Isn’t it amazing? However, a little bit of care is required in making such a selection because if you simply Alt+Click a word in MS Word then it launches the Research task pane instead of starting a selection. So, follow the following steps in a sequence to accomplish this task without any hassle:

1. Press and hold down the Alt key on your keyboard.
2. Left click in your document where you want the upper left corner of your selection and hold down the mouse button.
3. Drag your mouse to the point where you want the lower right corner of your selection.
4. Release the mouse button and then release the Alt key.

You can, however, start the selection from any of the four possible corners and end it on the opposite one.