You haven't told us what you want to do with such a non-contiguous selection so I'm going to suggest a non-VBA way to achieve this.

Does your content have any tables in it? If not, I would select all and Convert Text to Table, using the "=" as the separator. This will give you a two column table with everything before the = in one column and everything after in the second column. Then select the column you want.

You can convert back to text to re-instate the original layout.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia