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Selecting text in Word 2003

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Name: Leto
Date: May 22, 2007 at 17:20:41 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
CPU/Ram: 512meg
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My Word has just changed its behaviour when selecting text. If I click anywhere in a document I want the cursor to appear at the end of the line I'm on, right? But what's happening is if I click anywhere in the whitespace of a document (ie not clicking in the middle of a line), it will select the whole line or paragraph. This is irritating as I now have to always click exactly on the last character in a line to get my cursor on that line. Also, if I click inside a table cell it will select the entire contents of the cell rather than automatically put the cursor at the end of the line.

I have tried fixing it with various selections in Tools:Options:Edit but none of these options have fixed the problem.

Any ideas? Would really appreciate it. Thanks!



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Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: May 23, 2007 at 05:41:55 Pacific
Reply:

Have you by chance enabled Extend Selection mode? Or enabled/disabled Smart paragraph selection?

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Name: Leto
Date: May 23, 2007 at 19:07:54 Pacific
Reply:

I had checked both of those but neither was the cause of the problem.

Cheers.


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