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
    2018-05-27T00:33:01+00:00

    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!!

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-08-15T00:19:10+00:00

    That was easy. And now my life is better.

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