Q&A: Supersize Cut-and-Paste in Microsoft Word

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I have a long Word document with parts that I want to cut and paste into a different file. Not all the paragraphs I want to use are near each other and I think there will be a lot of back-and-forth between the two files, but is there a way to select random parts of the original document all at once?
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While the basic cut-and-paste maneuver just grabs one chunk of contiguous text from a file at a time, recent versions of Microsoft Word include a helpful feature called the Spike that may help here. The Spike is sort of a longer-term storage area within Word. By using the Spike, you can select and cut noncontiguous text from around the original document — and then paste it all as one big batch into the new file.

To use the Spike feature in Word for Windows, highlight the first batch of text you want to move and press Control-F3; on the Mac version of Word, press Command-F3 instead. Keep highlighting the text and images you want from around the file, pressing Control-F3 or Command-F3 to snag each chunk.

When you have the content you want from the old file you want, switch to the other file and click the cursor where you want the material to go. In Windows, press Control-Shift-F3 to empty all the content from the Spike into the new file; on a Mac, press Command-Shift-F3.

You can also grab images this way. Since the text and images are cut instead of copied into the Spike, you may want to make a duplicate of your original Word file before you start moving things around — just to have a backup copy.