Turning off "select entire words" in IE Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 1:50 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Mike (2 messages posted) When selecting text in Internet Explorer through a simple click&drag, IE automatically selects entire words. I know where I want to click with my mouse; my preference is select one character at a time. In Office applications, there is a way of turning this off, but I cannot seem to find a way in IE -- I just spent 30 min on Google in vain. I really want to turn off this "helpful" feature! FWIW I have XP SP3 and IE 8 Responses to this message: re: Turning off "select entire words" in IE (Ricer46: Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 6:52 pm) re: Turning off "select entire words" in IE (MartinM: Friday, October 16, 2009 at 2:25 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Turning off "select entire words" in IE (Mike: Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 1:50 pm) re: Turning off "select entire words" in IE (Ricer46: Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 6:52 pm) re: Turning off "select entire words" in IE (MartinM: Fri, Oct 16, 2009, 2:25 pm) re: Turning off "select entire words" in IE (Mike: Fri, Oct 16, 2009, 3:08 pm) re: Turning off "select entire words" in IE (MartinM: Fri, Oct 16, 2009, 5:24 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum