This browser is no longer supported.
Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support.
![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(128, 8%, 22%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3EA%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
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.
=======
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 ->
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.
Try left clicking at the beginning of the text that you want to select and then move the mouse point to the end of that text and hold down the Shift key and left click.
In order to be able to select a portion of a word, you must clear the check box for "When selecting, automatically select entire word" at File | Options | Advanced: Editing options. But that doesn't explain runaway highlighting such as you describe unless your mouse button has a hair trigger: double-clicking will select a word, Ctrl+click a sentence, and triple-click a paragraph.