Every now and again I have a need to edit text in a “spreadsheet” like manner. I wish to select blocks of text in a grid, and manipulate it.
Until recently I had relied on 3rd party editors for this feature, but it turns out that Visual Studio provides it out of the box.
Just press and hold Alt, and select the area you want with the mouse.
This was tested in Visual Studio 2005, I think it also works in Visual Studio 2003, and 2008.