Don't Underestimate The Power Of The Alt Key

Recently, whilst doing a menacing cut and paste job, I remembered the convenience of using the Alt key when selecting text.

Take the following text, for example:

Fruit                   Crisps
=====                ======       
Strawberries        Salt And Vinegar
Apples                Cheese And Onion
Pears                  Ready Salted
Oranges              Chicken
Pineapples          Prawn Cocktail

Now, if I only want to grab hold of whatever is underneath the heading 'Crisps' then all I need to do is hold down my Alt key, hover over the area just left of the letter C and begin dragging across and down. This will select only that portion of text and will exclude whatever lies under the heading 'Fruit'.

Note that only certain programs support the use of this style of copying and pasting. So far I've successfully employed its use in both Visual Studio (2003 & 2005) and SQL Server (2000 & 2005).