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Re: Selecting text in Windows

rheaney — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 18:28:34 GMT

I think the behaviour is quite useful sometimes.

But to select part of the word in any app that uses it, let the whole word get selected, then pull the cursor in the opposite direction over said word. This will allow partial selection quite easily.

Re: Selecting text in Windows

travis — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:39:55 GMT

curwiler wrote:
It's not univeral, it's set by the application. I turn this "feature" off myself as I hate it. For example, in Word 2003, go to Tools->Options, select the Edit tab, and then uncheck the "When selecting..." checkbox. Voila, no more selecting entire words.

-Chuck

Sweet, thanks. Any idea how to disable it in IE? (And all the apps that use an embedded version of it)

Re: Selecting text in Windows

curwiler — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:46:10 GMT

It's not univeral, it's set by the application. I turn this "feature" off myself as I hate it. For example, in Word 2003, go to Tools->Options, select the Edit tab, and then uncheck the "When selecting..." checkbox. Voila, no more selecting entire words.

-Chuck

Re: Selecting text in Windows

Aardvark — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:22:19 GMT

I wouldn't call it universal, standard UI gadgets such as edit boxes *don't* do this by default, nor do I see anyway, without custom code, to make them do this.

In other words its not Windows doing this, but each application.

Maybe the "rich text control" in Windows has built in word selection? I know "Wordpad" is based off that Windows control, and it can turn that word-selection behavior on and off? Anyone?