Thanks for your help Paul. The drag option is what I'm looking for as I need to keep both columns after any text has been moved.

Is there any way of automating this or is there any software that is already in the market in the form of an add-in? If not would a macro be able to do this?

I need to be able to move the text from column A to column B sometimes several hundred times per document so the drag and drop option although works, will be extremely time consuming and tedious.

James