Using the “Spike” feature of Microsoft Word
I use Word quite a bit. In fact, I have been using some version of Word since Office 95. Still, even after all those years, most of the features of Word remain unknown and unused by me. Generally, it is because I have no need for all the power of Word. Now and then, however, I hear about some overlooked function that I wished I had known about before. Such is the feature called “Spike”. The Office Watch site has a nice explanation of how to use this lesser-known capability. The description begins:
For example, in Word, you’ll find a smorgasbord of methods for cutting, copying and pasting text. There’s the usual cut, copy and paste via keystroke, menu or toolbar. There’s also the Office Clipboard, which is like copy-and-paste on steroids. Then there’s the often-overlooked spike, which sits halfway between the other two methods in terms of power.
The spike lets you quickly reorganize snippets of text and graphics. You grab the snippets from different locations in your document, place them one by one on the spike, then use the Insert From Spike command to paste them as a block into your document.
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