Hi Manfred,

Did you try it?
Presumable you have already chosen to "Select All" with Find, and  
that works?
It really should be that simple unless we've overlooked something:
Copy, select spot in new document, Paste.
HOwever, non-contiguous selections will be all together in one lump  
in the new document, which may or may not be what you would like.  If  
there's many many of them, then a macro could be useful to move  them  
one at a time, adding your desired separation between them.

Ben in Montana
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On 2016 Apr 28, at 9:08 am, Manfred Kropp wrote:

> Dear Nisoids,
> in a large lexicon file the references are given in italic. I want  
> to extract these references and have them in a separate document.  
> In the search-replace dialogue I can find all these chunks of text  
> in italic and have them highlighted /selected. Is it possible then  
> to copy and paste in a new document? Or does that need a macro?
> Thanks for help
> Manfred