Web Select Option Gone After Recent Edge Update

Anonymous
2023-06-04T16:11:02+00:00

MS Edge Version: 114.0.1823.37

For some reason, I no longer have the Web Select option in the right-click context menu. I still have Web Capture, but Web Select is no longer there. Did MS remove this feature, or is it a bug?

Microsoft Edge | Other | Windows 10

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-11-01T15:36:11+00:00

    Thank you for your post - I was able to access WebSelect for approximately 2 weeks in October, then it went away again. I'm going to have to figure out a new process - manually entering multiple rows of 10 digit numbers from a websource can become incredibly tedious and error-filled. THere goes my hourly budget out the window...

    Thanks again - good luck!

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-01T20:27:14+00:00

    There is a way to restore the Web Select feature to Edge by simply adding a command to the end of the target in the Edge shortcut's properties. Simply add a space and this text afterwards. You will need to be an admin to save your changes.

    --enable-features=msEdgeAreaSelect

    You may have to reboot a couple of times for it to start working so be aware of that.

    This is still working for me, so thanks to Eric for unearthing the fix. The procedure is quite simple for most users:

    1. Copy this black line:
      --enable-features=msEdgeAreaSelect
    2. Close down Edge.
    3. Right-click on the taskbar shortcut you use to launch Edge.
    4. On the menu that opens above the Unpin ... command is the name of the browser and its icon. Right-click on this entry to open another menu.
    5. Click on Properties.
    6. The properties dialogue should open at the Shortcut tab with the Target box highlighted. press the right arrow on your keyboard ro remove the highlight and place the cursor at the end of the target.
    7. Type one space, then paste the text you copied at (1). Pressing Ctrl-V should do this automatically.
    8. Click Apply and OK to close the dialogue.

    Test the shortcut to see whether the browser that opens includes the Web select option, e.g. by pressing Ctrl-Shift-X. If it does, well and good. It it doesn't, restarting the computer may help.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-01T20:39:16+00:00

    I was tearing my hair our trying to fiure how to cope without web select But solved it:

    Try Firefox -- latest version:119.0 (64-bit)
    pastes a copied table from a wb page straight into excel cells without doing anything special, just a standard copy!

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-11-02T18:06:32+00:00

    Corrrection

    Firefox works for some but not all!

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-11-03T14:30:49+00:00

    Thank you! I've been trying this method and even restarting my PC for the past few days, but nothing worked. Even a complete shutdown doesn't work. However, what worked for me is to kill the Microsoft Edge process from the Task Manager regardless of if you add the command line before or after you killed the process.

    Now I have Web Select back both under Ctrl + Shift + S or by using it directly through Ctrl + Shift + X

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