How to Quickly Remove Snippet Line Numbers in Visual Studio

This is my sixth post in a series of entry-level posts, as suggested by Tim Ford (b|l|t) in this challenge.
I have not set any scope for the topics of my, at least, twelve (12) posts in this blog category of mine, but I can assure, it’ll be focused on SQL Server stuff. This time, it’s a neat little trick that has saved me a lot of that repetitive delete, down, home, repeat kind of work.

Only too often I find myself searching the web for pieces of code, that I need for some odd solution. And almost every time, I come across a web page, where the code sample is displayed with line numbers. It’s always annoying to have to sit and delete those manually. No longer I say! Yes, you heard me right. Actually Visual Studio has a neat trick to help you get this done in a jiff.

An example of a code snippet, could be the following:

Even though the numbers are not highlighted, when we copy from the source, they are still pasted into the destination. To easily get rid of the line numbers, just paste your code sample into a text document in Visual Studio; Pres [ctrl] + [n] and select a text file:

Once the file is open, paste in your code snippet:

Now for the juicy part.
Place your carrot/marker in the first line and first column, on index (0,0) so to speak – See green arrow:

Now, at the same time, Press [Shift]+[Alt] and mark just behind the last dot (.) behind the “7th” line, as in below screen dump.

Pres Delete: