Text selection with mouse

[Guest]

Is there any way to change the Windows behavior for text selection using a
mouse?

When I select text and want to stop in the middle of a word, Windows will
select the entire word. How do I stop that?

Thanks!

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Windows' default behavior is to select whatever the cursor selects.
Different programs can be configured differently, like Microsoft Word, for
example. What program do you have in mind?

 

[Dan]

This is often set by the application you are working in. What
application are you seeing this in?

 

[Guest]

Most of the Microsoft programs seem to have that behavior... Outlook Express,
Internet Explorer, Word. So I thought there might be a generic Windows
setting to change them all. But I just checked and Mozilla Firefox and
Microsoft Notepad do not.... very interesting!

So I guess my question should be directed to OE, IE, Office components?

Tim

 

[Guest]

Also just posted this to Ted:

Most of the Microsoft programs seem to have that behavior... Outlook
Express, Internet Explorer, Word. So I thought there might be a generic
Windows setting to change them all. But I just checked and Mozilla Firefox
and Microsoft Notepad do not.... very interesting!

So I guess my question should be directed to OE, IE, Office components?

Tim

 

[Dan]

I can't speak for OE, but for IE there is no direct setting, but you
can allow the full word selection, then while keeping the button
depressed, move the cursor to the end of the word and then move in
reverse to unselect the unwanted area. For office components, look in
the Tools | Options dialog. In Word (at least 2003), it's under the
Edit tab.

 

[q_q_anonymous]

Is there any way to change the Windows behavior for text selection using a
mouse?

When I select text and want to stop in the middle of a word, Windows will
select the entire word. How do I stop that?

Thanks!

That ancient mystic art is possible in MS Word. Hold ALT+drag the
mouse. It's v. powerful.

Notepad doesn't highlight the entire word though.

Windows isn't a word processor. You can do some limited word processing
when editting the words below icons. But even then, highlighting words
rather like notepad, it doesn't highlight the entire word, you can
start in the middle
I tested this on Win XP SP2, but I think this is true for all win
versions.

 

[David Candy]

Web based pages (and OE) select words if the selections extends past the beginning or end of a word.,

 

[q_q_anonymous]

Web based pages (and OE) select words if the selections extends past the beginning or end of a word.,

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moxilla doesn't.

So, it's IE and OE. I think OE is a part of IE anyway, I recall windows
updates for IE including OE updates.