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Does anybody else find this annoying
Poll ended at March 18th, 2010, 2:32 am
Yes (I'm smart enough to know what I'm selecting) 75%  75%  [ 3 ]
No (I like the computer telliing me what to do) 25%  25%  [ 1 ]
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 Post subject: "Smart" Select
PostPosted: March 4th, 2010, 2:32 am 
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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 :evil:, it does not do this with holding shift and using the arrow keys.

Does anybody know how to turn this off?


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 Post subject: Re: "Smart" Select
PostPosted: March 4th, 2010, 3:03 am 
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I Don't know what it's actualy called but, I can describe it.

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

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Does anybody know how to turn this off?

...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!


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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.


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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.


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PostPosted: March 4th, 2010, 3:02 pm 
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.


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PostPosted: March 4th, 2010, 5:38 pm 
Thx, ScottMattes, now how do I do that system wide?...in every MS prog that does it?


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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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PostPosted: March 5th, 2010, 6:26 am 
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It also does it in the help files like "AutoHotkey.chm" and that has no settings at all.


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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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