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March 22, 2011
Turn off 'Automatic Word Select' in MS Word 2007
MS Word 2007 sucks so hard I don't know where to begin, but I have resigned myself to learn this miserable little virus-like application. I learn it, fully expecting that the mindless trolls and minions at Redmond, Washington will yank the carpet from beneath me yet again in the next redesign. Probably the programmers are already chained to their basement desks, and being whipped like rented mules while they completely redesign Word 2007 into something completely unrecognizable yet again. Probably MS Word 2011 will come out later this year and you'll have to wear special glasses so that you see the screen as a fly would and use a new nose-stick to communicate with MS Word 2011.
But I digress. If you want to turn off the miserable little "feature" called "Automatic word select", which essentially thinks for you and selects text you never intended to select, you should do as follows:
"Click the Office button, select Word Options at the bottom of the menu, and choose Advanced from the pane on the left. Word will display Editing Options at the top of the pane on the right. In that section, you'll find the When Selecting, Automatically Select Entire Word check box."
Posted by Rob Kiser on March 22, 2011 at 6:19 PM
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