Selecting Elements for Selection.. more functionality lost?

In older microstation if you got an ACAD file full of single texts, you could just select them in order, CTRL C then edit the first an paste all the text into one line.

Same with selecting texts and pasting into notepad, excel etc.

Simples.

Now it pastes the texts selected in the order they are entered into the model.  So the above method or functionality is lost.

Is this yet more functionality that new Bentley programmers are unaware of and just write of of existance or have aI missed a new setting about how paste work with Selections.

Is there a preference option somewhere or a undocumented variable that governs how selections are presented to other programs and the editor?