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
    2018-03-10T23:37:27+00:00

    Yes but what a hassle having to do that everytime!!  - MS need to fix it!!

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  2. Stefan Blom 352.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2018-03-11T00:15:33+00:00

    Yes but what a hassle having to do that everytime!!  - MS need to fix it!!

    Whenever you want to select a long text range, clicking and then Shift-clicking (as Doug suggested) is actually the easiest method. But of course you don't have to do it that way.

    What are you trying to accomplish, exactly?

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-03-11T01:48:56+00:00

    Every time I want to put the curser at a certain point (usually to add a space between words, change text or correct a spelling mistake it ALWAYS highlights the entire word, sometimes if I click twice it then highlights the entire paragraph. My intention is not to highlight at all just to place the cursor in a particular position - so the shift arrow thing does not solve my issue - SOOOO Frustrating!! It does this in word and in hotmail. It is so bad it s happening everytime I click the cursor in to postiion (counted 37 times in this text alone - I'm a dyslexic typist so need to do corrections all the time) it really is driving me crazy, Ive tried everything, nothing has worked and when I'm writing a long document it literally adds hours to the process. I cannot understand why MS have not addressed this!!?

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  4. Stefan Blom 352.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2018-03-11T01:57:05+00:00

    In Word, double-clicking selects the whole word, so you should probably change the settings for your mouse (in Windows Settings, or Control Panel, depending on your version of Windows).

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-03-11T01:59:28+00:00

    I'm not double clicking - one click causes this!??

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