Word auto-highlighting, how to make it STOP!

Anonymous
2014-01-17T18:00:43+00:00

How do you disable this STUPID feature?

I'm trying to highlight a single word or some part of a word for cut&paste operations and Word auto-highlights the whole line and sometimes the whole paragraph or page.

I can be using a mouse, I can be using the shift+arrow keys, it doesn't matter. The auto-highlight takes over.

it seems to be worse on any kind of bullets and numbering or any header/footer fields.

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auto-indent is another evil feature. cut and paste from a notepad  and the indent is changed on your bullets and numbering. pretty much control-v means indent text right ->

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-01-28T23:08:00+00:00

    Appreciate your response, thanks!

    I just moved from 2003 in XP to 2010 in Win10 and hate both but guess I have to get used to it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-01-28T18:31:18+00:00

    What a shame they hide it under "File". It was easy to find under "Tools".

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  3. Stefan Blom 352.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2016-10-25T19:00:59+00:00

    Thanks for the follow-up. That option would only apply to selecting Word fields, though.

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