Can't select a small amount of text in a text box

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When filling in a Word 2000 form with a text box, I want to copy and paste a
few words from what I have typed and paste it somewhere else. When I press
the mouse button within the text it selects from where I clicked to the end
of all text in the text box.

How do I select just part of it?
 
On closer inspection, the "text box" is actually a "Text Form Field", but it
is placed inside a one column table. This rather unique combination seems to
give the strange behavior. I think I will change the form to not use a table
(unless anyone has a more simple work-around)
 
I tried using Text form fields within frames in order to accomodate
multi-line text entry and avoid the behavior mentioned in my first post. It
is a nightmare to set up and cannot even come close to the flexibility and
maintainability of tables. Is there any way of fixing the problem behaviour
when using text form fields within tables? I tried it in Word 2002 but it
made no difference.
 
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