Word contains a little-known feature, llamada Spike, which allows you to collect blocks of text and / or pictures from different locations in a Word document and then paste all of that content to another location in that document or to another Word file or other program.
The Spike in Word is named after the ancient paper holder on which people would push papers when finished with them. You may still see the original version of Spike in use at some companies.
The Spike is different from the Clipboard, which allows you to work with a single copied block of text at a time. Spike collects multiple non-contiguous text blocks as he copies them until he pastes all the collected text blocks elsewhere.
To collect information in Spike in Word, select the text and / or the images you want to add and press “Ctrl + F3”. This cuts the information from your document and places it on the Spike. You can continue cutting parts of your document and Word will continue adding the cut text to the Spike.
In this point, you're probably thinking, "Cut ?! I don't want to cut the text! ” No problem. When you use Spike, you are cutting or removing text from its original location, NOT copying text. Nevertheless, if you don't want to remove the text from the original location, just press “Ctrl + WITH” after cutting the text to the Spike to undo the cut. The text you originally cut still remains on the Spike.
We copy two blocks of text that we will now paste into a new document. Click on the tab “File”.
Click on “New” in the list of items on the left.
On the New screen, Click on the icon “Blank document”.
To paste the text you collected into the Spike, press “Ctrl + Shift + F3”.
NOTE: By pressing “Ctrl + Shift + F3 ”also clears all the information on the Spike. If you don't want to erase the information on the Spike when pasting your content, scribe “Spike” (without the quotes) and press “Enter”.
All the information about Spike (not just the last block of text you added to it) pastes into your document at the insertion point.
You can also view the content of Spike without pasting the content or emptying the Spike. Click on the tab “Insert” on the tape.
Click the button “highlight the content and click the tab” in the section “Text” and select “Autotext”.
NOTE: you may need to expand the word window to display the label on the “highlight the content and click the tab”. If the window is too small, text labels for some of the ribbon buttons are not displayed.
Information in Spike is displayed as an AutoText item in the submenu. You can click on the item “Spike” in the submenu to insert the contents of the Spike at the insertion point. This method of pasting the content of the Spike also leaves the content on the Spike..
Spike is a useful feature if you need to quickly and easily rearrange a document by moving non-contiguous text and images or create a new document from parts of another document.
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