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MS Office: turn off auto whole-word select?
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MS Office: turn off auto whole-word select?
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Posted by Ryan
(1 messages posted)
A (minor) MS Office annoyance:
When you try to select a part of a sentence in Word, as your highlight passes over
a space, Word insists on changing your selection to include the entire word and/or
adjacent spaces. If you go back over the space, without releasing the selection,
Word undoes this automatic whole-word+space selection. I can see how this feature
can be used effectively by sloppy selectors, but I would much prefer to keep my selection
exactly as I selected it, without the extra re-highlight step.
I don't image it's possible, but I would love to turn the feature off entirely.
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re: MS Office: turn off auto whole-word select?
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 7:19 am
Posted by Ricer46
(23825 messages posted)
It is possible, look in the menu options. I changed it years ago. You might want
to post the question at Woody's Office Forum:
www.wopr.com
You can also use Word's Help, which is what I did.
On Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 3:15 pm, Ryan wrote:
>A (minor) MS Office annoyance:
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>When you try to select a part of a sentence in Word, as your highlight passes over
>a space, Word insists on changing your selection to include the entire word and/or
>adjacent spaces. If you go back over the space, without releasing the selection,
>Word undoes this automatic whole-word+space selection. I can see how this feature
>can be used effectively by sloppy selectors, but I would much prefer to keep my
selection
>exactly as I selected it, without the extra re-highlight step.
>
>I don't image it's possible, but I would love to turn the feature off entirely.
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re: MS Office: turn off auto whole-word select?
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 9:47 am
Posted by MartinM
(7551 messages posted)
It is indeed there in Help. Amazing :-)
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Well...
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Posted by Ricer46
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Well, yes. Actually Office Help has been pretty good since Office 97.
I use it myself when I run into similar problems. It's a lot faster than asking in
a forum.
On Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 9:47 am, MartinM wrote:
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>It is indeed there in Help. Amazing :-)
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re: Well...
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Posted by MartinM
(7551 messages posted)
Indeed, and a worthwhile learning experience :-)
Teach a man to use help/Google . . . .
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re: Well...
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Posted by Ricer46
(23825 messages posted)
Yep...
On Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 6:07 pm, MartinM wrote:
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>Indeed, and a worthwhile learning experience :-)
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>Teach a man to use help/Google . . . .
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