Auto-selecting entire fields within a doc?

[cleassan2]

I'm using Word 2002, and this feature seems to have disappeared. As fa
back as I can remember, I've been able to easily select an entire fiel
displayed in a document by dragging the mouse over the first couple o
characters. (Similar to the auto select entire word.) Now it only doe
one character at a time.

This isn't a big deal until I want to edit the definition for a TOC b
highlighting the whole thing and clicking "Edit Field". It doesn'
recognize it as a field and I have to recreate the TOC entirely.

Is there a setting somewhere for this? I couldn't find it in the Wor
options list. I've done a lot of VB customization and I'm wondering i
I mistakenly set something through VB. Thanks for any help!

Cristin

 

[Beth Melton]

I'm not sure why they changed it but you can turn it back on. Go to
Tools/Options/Compatibility and turn on "Select entire field with
first or last character".

To make this the behavior for all new documents click the "Default"
command. For previously created document you need to modify the
option. If you are familiar with VBA then you can easily create a
macro to change this option:

ActiveDocument.Compatibility(wdSelectFieldWithFirstOrLastCharacter) =
True

Note if you use the Macro Recorder for this then make sure you edit
the macro and delete all other recorded options with the exception of
the line of code I provided.

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[cleassan2]

THANK YOU!! That's exactly what I was looking for.

Cristin

 

[Beth Melton]

You're welcome.

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