still a problem...

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In W2k, Word 2002:

There is some setting activated on my system that I cannot locate.
Situation: I am editing extant text. I click at the beginning of a passage
that I want to select. I depress the shift key. I read on ahead, to find
the end of what I want to select. I intend to click at the end, and expect
the intervening passage to be selected.

What happens: Suddenly, all the text from the blinking cursor to the mouse
cursor is selected.

What is this feature called, and how do I turn it off?
 
G'Day (again) Stephanie,

As I replied LAST WEEK........

Please READ..........AGAIN..........

DO NOT HOLD DOWN SHIFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Click where you want to start the selection. Do NOT hold down Shift.
Read on (and on and on) until your cursor is at the spot where you wish
to end - maybe dozens of pages further on. Do NOT click in the
Document (you can click the Scrollbar).
NOW hold down Shift, and Click!
 
Please don't be cranky with me. The question is: What is this feature
called, and how do I turn it off? If you don't know, please go away.
Thank you.
 
Extend Selection? Double-click EXT on the status bar?

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

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Thanks, Suzanne.
Yes, it is very similar. But it does not stop at the end of a word, line,
sentence, or paragraph: it stops EXACTLY at the mouse cursor. It is as
though depressing the SHIFT key replaces clicking the mouse. Which is why I
suspect an accessibility feature. But I have scrounged thru the
accessibility features several times, selecting and de-selecting various
things, and rebooting, to see how they work. But I can't find anything that
might be related to this.
Isn't there an Accessibility News Group? Somebody there might know. But I
can't find it.

When I posted this a couple of times last year, I was given lots of ideas,
but none were applicable.

Sigh...
 
The only accessibility NG I can find on this server is
microsoft.public.windowsxp.accessibility.

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

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Stephanie,

What you are describing is not a feature - it is not intended to
happen.

There IS a feature (extended selection) that you can turn on using
the EXT button on the status bar:
Place Insertion Point where you wish the selection to start
double-click EXT/Scroll to where you would like to end
(in either order)
Click with the Mouse, and the Selection will be made.
(Double-click EXT to turn it off)

You are not using that feature. To select a large block of text,
Help states: "Click at the start of the selection, scroll to the end
of the selection, and then hold down SHIFT and click."

Holding down SHIFT for an extended period of time is not
to be recommended, especially with wireless keyboard/mouse.

I have triggered the Windows Sticky Keys dialog by holding
down SHIFT - it should only appear if SHIFT is pressed 5 times.

What you describe is exactly what would be expected to
occur had you clicked the Mouse button - although of course
you had not yet done so. That also can happen with a Wireless
Mouse.

The very BEST advice that can be offered is:
Do NOT hold down the SHIFT key until you are ready to Click!

Now I'm going away `[:-}
 
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