Right Click Menus in a Word Document

[Turps]

If I wish to change a paragraph's settings, I may right click within
the paragraph. Also when I wish to copy a word or words, after
highlighting them I right click on them. I then see one of two menus:

Move Here
Copy Here
Link Here (may be greyed out)
Create Hyperlink Here
Cancel

or

Cut
Copy
Paste
Font
Paragraph
Bullets and Numbering
Draw Table

It is the second menu that I require, not the first. Sometimes on
getting the first menu I have to cancel it several times before the
second menu appears.

Please can anyone tell me how to control which menu appears. Do I do
something (unwittingly) prior to the right click that affects which
menu appears? Is there a setting I can make (even to the registry)
which controls it?

I am using Word 97.

Turps

 

[Stefan Blom]

The context menu with Move Here, Copy Here etc. should only display
after you've dragged text holding the right¹ mouse button. If you are
having problems with this, perhaps you need to change the settings for
your mouse in Control Panel.


¹Of course, this assumes that your mouse it setup for right-handed
users.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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[Turps]

The context menu with Move Here, Copy Here etc. should only display

after you've dragged text holding the right¹ mouse button. If you are
having problems with this, perhaps you need to change the settings for
your mouse in Control Panel.


¹Of course, this assumes that your mouse it setup for right-handed
users.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


in message

Thank you, Stefan, for your quick reply. Digging around in Google I
once found a vague reference to mouse movement which I could not
understand. This explains it, so I will check what I am doing on right
clicking and get control of it. Comments about mouse setting noted,
thanks.