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I Don't know what it's actualy called but, I can describe it.
When I Click in the middle of a word and drag to select text if I go past the first word it automaticaly moves the begining of the selection to include the whole first word. I find this , it does not do this with holding shift and using the arrow keys.

Does anybody know how to turn this off?

...it's called Dumb Select...jk...


...yes, use Firefox, not IE...lol...but if you mean for MS Word, then I dunno...does Open Office do this?...I hope not, must test...

This is just one more dumb-ass Microsoft Annoyance...& of course they don't give us a checkbox to turn if off!

A couple years ago I played around with edit control messages in an attempt to customize this feature. I was somewhat successful: Edit Control Selection Delimiter. Maybe you can tweak it to your preference.

First go to the opposite direction, at least until a whole word is highlighted, then back to the right direction. There can be other combinations too.

Stop selecting the entire word
Click the Microsoft Office Button , and then click Word Options.
Click Advanced.
Under Editing options, clear the check box next to When selecting, automatically select entire word.

Thx, ScottMattes, now how do I do that system wide?...in every MS prog that does it?

How many MS progs do it? Word and Outlook typically share the same editor, so if you've changed it for Word is should prevent it in Outlook. I don't recall ever having that problem in Excel or PowerPoint so I don't think it occurs in those, but I could be wrong.

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Try Quick Search for Autohotkey or see the tutorial for newbies.

It also does it in the help files like "AutoHotkey.chm" and that has no settings at all.

None, CHM files use the Internet Explorer engine. But apparently IE doesn't have a mean to disable that. For example, answers in Smart Word Selection in IE - How to disable? are clueless...
Yes another reason for not using IE, but alas it is still there in a number of products...

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