Insertion point

[artnlsn]

I'm using Word 2002. How do I place the cursor below a line of text using
the mouse pointer? Thanks for you help.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You don't. The insertion point can't be where there is no text (unless you
enable the abominable "Click and type").

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Pop`]

You don't. The insertion point can't be where there is no text
(unless you enable the abominable "Click and type").

Curious: Why do you see that as abominable? I find it pretty handy in a
few different cases.

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[Jay Freedman]

It may be handy in a few cases, mostly throwaway documents that you'll print
once and then discard. The experts consider it abominable because it uses a
ton of empty paragraph marks to set the vertical position on the page. In
any document that will be saved and edited again, that's a recipe for
trouble. We also find it objectionable that it's turned on by default in a
new installation, probably in the hope of making it "discoverable" for new
users (when, frankly, we wish it wasn't discoverable at all).

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Microsoft Word MVP
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[Pop`]

It may be handy in a few cases, mostly throwaway documents that
you'll print once and then discard. The experts consider it
abominable because it uses a ton of empty paragraph marks to set the
vertical position on the page. In any document that will be saved and
edited again, that's a recipe for trouble. We also find it
objectionable that it's turned on by default in a new installation,
probably in the hope of making it "discoverable" for new users (when,
frankly, we wish it wasn't discoverable at all).

Huh. I respect your knowledge and have seen you around quite a bit, so I
know you know what you're talking about. I guess I expected something more
techie, honestly.
Mostly because all it does is create para marks down to the click point,
and a tab if it's not clicked at column 1. I find it fairly useful at
times, especially if I'm intentionally creating white space in a document.
Guess it's more a case of preferences. It certainly doesn't represent
any "recipe" for disaster that I can see! More lke a ymmv case, I guess.
No big dea.

By the way, there is no "we".

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[Jay Freedman]

Huh. I respect your knowledge and have seen you around quite a bit, so I
know you know what you're talking about. I guess I expected something more
techie, honestly.
Mostly because all it does is create para marks down to the click point,
and a tab if it's not clicked at column 1. I find it fairly useful at
times, especially if I'm intentionally creating white space in a document.
Guess it's more a case of preferences. It certainly doesn't represent
any "recipe" for disaster that I can see! More lke a ymmv case, I guess.
No big dea.

By the way, there is no "we".

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Yes, it's a case of preferences. I suppose if no one liked Click &
Type, it wouldn't still be part of the program. Look at what happened
to poor old Clippy...

I didn't say it was a recipe for disaster, just that it's a recipe for
trouble in documents that will be used repeatedly.

When I said "we" I was referring to the Word and Office MVPs and many
other frequent contributors in these newsgroups. I'll leave the "royal
plural" to Queen Elizabeth.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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