AutoHotkey Community

None · Joined: 28 Nov 2009 Posts: 3086

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 or Very Mad

, it does not do this with holding shift and using the arrow keys.

Does anybody know how to turn this off?

Guest · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 2:03 am Post subject: Re: "Smart" Select

jaco0646 · Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 3113 Location: MN, USA

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.

Sean · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 2462

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.

ScottMattes Offline · Guest

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.

Guest · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 4:38 pm Post subject:

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

sinkfaze · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 6:50 pm Post subject:

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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None · Joined: 28 Nov 2009 Posts: 3086

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

PhiLho · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 9:56 pm Post subject:

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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