Select column text in preview

I have a pdf with columns of text.
I'm sure that, pre-Lion, I used to be able to select a single column by alt-clicking and dragging.
Now if I do that, the selection is haphazard or, more often, it simply draws a rectangle around my target column but does not highlight it.
Any solutions out there?

I got that to work. Now I have another problem. The text looks fine in Design and Preview and Preview in Browser. I copied to the ftp folder for the site. It looks terrible, as you'll see. All the text is to the left and the color in the title lines doesn't appear. If I open the html file in Safari on the desktop, it's fine. Off the web it's bad. www.imagimedia.com. Page is FAQ

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Let me explain.
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Thank you for your response.
Acrobat is the solution indeed. I can save the lists as pdf, open in Acrobat Reader & select the text like I used to in Preview.
(Which, by the way is strange, it never was possible this way in Acrobat.... That's why I was so happy with the old Preview.
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app.selection[0].cells.everyItem().texts[0].applyParagraphStyle(app.activeDocument.paragra phStyles.item(0), false);
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app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findChangeTextOptions = NothingEnum.nothing;
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app.findChangeTextOptions = NothingEnum.nothing;
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app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findChangeGrepOptions = NothingEnum.nothing;
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myString += "app.changeGrepPreferences.properties = " + myChangePreferences + ";";
myString += "app.findChangeGrepOptions.properties = " + myFindChangeOptions + ";";
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app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findChangeGrepOptions = NothingEnum.nothing;
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myString += "app.changeGlyphPreferences.properties = " + myChangePreferences + ";";
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app.changeGlyphPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findGlyphPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findChangeGlyphOptions = NothingEnum.nothing;
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var myScriptFolder = myScriptFile.path;
myFilePath = myScriptFolder + myFilePath;
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try{
myFile = app.activeScript;
catch(myError){
myFile = myError.fileName;
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grep {findWhat:"."} {appliedLanguage: app.languagesWithVendors.item("English: USA"), kerningMethod: "無"} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, includeLockedStoriesForFind:true, widthSensitive:true}
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grep {findWhat:"."} {gridAlignment: 1852796517} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, includeLockedStoriesForFind:true, widthSensitive:true}
//006
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