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re: Select Text Selects Other Stuff
Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 10:50 am
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Posted by Ricer46 (19384 messages posted)

Outside of MSOffice, what other products do that? It's easy enough to change in MSOffice.







On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 10:24 am, Grover wrote:

>You know how when you try to select some text in so many windows-based apps and 
by 

>default the selection includes stuff like the following space or various code characters 

>like " or < or all kinds of other stuff that you don't intend to get? 

>

>This drives me nuts. 

>

>Is there any way to shut this stupid "Smart" behaviour off system-wide? Like so 
many 

>context-sensitive time-saving innovations this just ends up being a massive waste 

>of time. Any idea how to SWIW: Select What I Want?

Written in response to:: Select Text Selects Other Stuff (Grover: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 10:24 am)

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re: Select Text Selects Other Stuff (Grover: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 at 9:51 am)

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Select Text Selects Other Stuff (Grover: Tue, Dec 27, 2005, 10:24 am)

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