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. Stefan Blom 352.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-04-18T14:59:14+00:00

    I'm not familiar with the "APA style report" that you mention.

    That said, are you sure that you deleted the content control completely? Maybe you just deleted its content, and you are still entering text into the control, which might explain why it can't be selected the way one would usually expect.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-04-19T05:34:29+00:00

    To be honest, I feel pretty stupid right now...

    It seems like you can't edit the text that was already in the style sheet, explaining what you should do...

    I am sorry for wasting your time, have a great day!

    BR

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  3. Stefan Blom 352.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-04-19T12:10:08+00:00

    Thanks for the follow-up.

    Indeed, if you are referring to the instructions in a content control, I wouldn't excpect those to be customizable.

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  4. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-04-19T12:17:54+00:00

    It depends on what you're talking about. If you're referring to the content control's "Click here to enter text," that can certainly be customized in Design Mode.

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  5. Stefan Blom 352.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-04-19T12:26:25+00:00

    That is certainly true, and I should have mentioned the possibility of editing in Design mode.

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