Nifty Firefox keyboard command for the Mac

I discovered today, while working on me accounting project, that you can select a single column or row of tabular HTML data from, say, an annual report, by holding down the and keys and dragging the mouse to select your data. Otherwise, the browser only lets you select multiple columns or rows. Unfortunately, this trick, which I learned from Microsoft Word, only works in Firefox and not Safari. It would be interesting to know whether it also works in Internet Exploder.

Interestingly, the same trick works even better in the MacOS X app Preview. When you paste the data to Excel, it comes out in a column, as opposed to copying from Firefox, where the data gets pasted into Excel as a row, regardless of how it was originally formatted.

Either way, (or presumably on the PC) saves lots o'time spent manually typing data to Excel.