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Selecting text problem
I'm having a problem selecting text in Work 2007. When I try selecting to the
end of a paragraph, Word automatically selects the paragraph marking, thus selecting the entire paragraph. This also happens when I select to the end of a line that includes the paragraph marking. In previous versions of Word, this wasn't the case. Please let me know if there is an option I can turn off to return to the original workings of Word. Thank you. |
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Selecting text problem
Way down in the list of "advanced options" (buried deep in Word
Options near the lower right of Office Button panel), there's something referring to Smart Paragraph Selecting (or something like that). When that is checked, Word insists on including the paragraph mark in a selection. (Just like "Smart Word Selecting" or something like that, which insists on selecting an entire word when you just want to select a few letters in the word.) On Nov 21, 12:58*pm, shrubberr wrote: I'm having a problem selecting text in Work 2007. When I try selecting to the end of a paragraph, Word automatically selects the paragraph marking, thus selecting the entire paragraph. This also happens when I select to the end of a line that includes the paragraph marking. In previous versions of Word, this wasn't the case. Please let me know if there is an option I can turn off to return to the original workings of Word. Thank you. |
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Selecting text problem
Office Button | Word Options | Advanced: Editing options: Use smart
paragraph selection. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "shrubberr" wrote in message news I'm having a problem selecting text in Work 2007. When I try selecting to the end of a paragraph, Word automatically selects the paragraph marking, thus selecting the entire paragraph. This also happens when I select to the end of a line that includes the paragraph marking. In previous versions of Word, this wasn't the case. Please let me know if there is an option I can turn off to return to the original workings of Word. Thank you. |
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Selecting text problem
Thank you for responding.
I tried what you recommended, but it still selects the entire paragraph. I'm using the keyboard shortcuts: Control - Shift - Down arrow or Shift - End or Shift - Down arrow When using any of these three to select to the end of a paragraph, the selection includes the paragraph marking even when I turned off smart paragraph selection. Is this just a bug, or is there another option that will correct this problem? Thanks for your help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Office Button | Word Options | Advanced: Editing options: Use smart paragraph selection. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "shrubberr" wrote in message news I'm having a problem selecting text in Work 2007. When I try selecting to the end of a paragraph, Word automatically selects the paragraph marking, thus selecting the entire paragraph. This also happens when I select to the end of a line that includes the paragraph marking. In previous versions of Word, this wasn't the case. Please let me know if there is an option I can turn off to return to the original workings of Word. Thank you. |
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Selecting text problem
Still holding down on the selection shortcuts, you can press the left
arrow to deselect the paragraph mark. Cheryl On Nov 25, 7:30*am, shrubberr wrote: Thank you for responding. I tried what you recommended, but it still selects the entire paragraph. I'm using the keyboard shortcuts: Control - Shift - Down arrow or Shift - End or Shift - Down arrow When using any of these three to select to the end of a paragraph, the selection includes the paragraph marking even when I turned off smart paragraph selection. Is this just a bug, or is there another option that will correct this problem? Thanks for your help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Office Button | Word Options | Advanced: Editing options: Use smart paragraph selection. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "shrubberr" wrote in message news I'm having a problem selecting text in Work 2007. When I try selecting to the end of a paragraph, Word automatically selects the paragraph marking, thus selecting the entire paragraph. This also happens when I select to the end of a line that includes the paragraph marking. In previous versions of Word, this wasn't the case. Please let me know if there is an option I can turn off to return to the original workings of Word. Thank you. |
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Selecting text problem
That's because those are ways of selecting entire paragraphs!
The simplest way is either to drag across what you want to select, or to put the cursor at the beginning of the passage, then Shift-click precisely after the last character you want to include. On Nov 25, 10:30*am, shrubberr wrote: Thank you for responding. I tried what you recommended, but it still selects the entire paragraph. I'm using the keyboard shortcuts: Control - Shift - Down arrow or Shift - End or Shift - Down arrow When using any of these three to select to the end of a paragraph, the selection includes the paragraph marking even when I turned off smart paragraph selection. Is this just a bug, or is there another option that will correct this problem? Thanks for your help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Office Button | Word Options | Advanced: Editing options: Use smart paragraph selection. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "shrubberr" wrote in message news I'm having a problem selecting text in Work 2007. When I try selecting to the end of a paragraph, Word automatically selects the paragraph marking, thus selecting the entire paragraph. This also happens when I select to the end of a line that includes the paragraph marking. In previous versions of Word, this wasn't the case. Please let me know if there is an option I can turn off to return to the original workings of Word. Thank you.- |
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