select several non-consecutive words

Just the way the applications are designed. Using LibreOffice Writer, you can select non-contiguous words with the command key.

Thanks Viking.

I was confused by this very issue due to old references (from 2010) about: "Select Sections of Non-Contiguous Text in Mac OS X with the Command key", complete with a YouTube video demonstrating this with TextEdit.

[https://youtu.be/kElLbttl3do] at

[https://osxdaily.com/2010/08/09/select-sections-of-non-contiguous-text-by-holding-down-the-command-key/]

I don't know if this is rubbish or an old feature - but I don't recall this being a feature since the days of my PowerBook. I would use Microsoft Word, and later LibreOffice Writer - as you commented.

osxdaily is not a reference I commonly use but I thought it was fairly mainstream.

These days I use the advanced features of Find & Replace - I ditched Office and LibreOffice will be done with the next iMac Pro - if it EVER gets made (1st world problem).