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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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Hello, After putting up with it for months and months and spending an unbelievable amount of time trying to find a remedy, mine turned out to be a faulty mouse!! Buy a new mouse and see if that works - good luck!!
Not a new solution, but left click with the mouse before the first character that you want to select, move the mouse cursor to just after the last character and then left click while holding down the SHIFT key.
Forgive me for not using the correct jargon. Before this thread I had thought I was an advanced word user.
I can let you see the document if there is a private address. I cant put it into the public domain
Paul
As Doug has pointed out, what you claim that I said is not what I actually said.
Please clarify what you are trying to accomplish and which form you are currently using.
You are quoting Stefan out of context. He said that in one particular case, trying to select part of a legacy formfield was tricky.
What do you mean by "controlled entry"? Are you talking about a document that is protected for filling in forms? What version of Word are you using? This thread was about Word 2013 in which (and with 2007 and 2010 before it) you can use Content Controls instead of FormFields and then you do not need to apply protection to the document so that the restrictions that such protection imposes (such as no spell checking) are not then relevant.