re: MS Office: turn off auto whole-word select? Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 7:19 am Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ricer46 (22024 messages posted) It is possible, look in the menu options. I changed it years ago. You might want to post the question at Woody's Office Forum: www.wopr.com You can also use Word's Help, which is what I did. On Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 3:15 pm, Ryan wrote: >A (minor) MS Office annoyance: > >When you try to select a part of a sentence in Word, as your highlight passes over >a space, Word insists on changing your selection to include the entire word and/or >adjacent spaces. If you go back over the space, without releasing the selection, >Word undoes this automatic whole-word+space selection. I can see how this feature >can be used effectively by sloppy selectors, but I would much prefer to keep my selection >exactly as I selected it, without the extra re-highlight step. > >I don't image it's possible, but I would love to turn the feature off entirely. Written in response to: MS Office: turn off auto whole-word select? (Ryan: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 3:15 pm) Responses to this message: re: MS Office: turn off auto whole-word select? (MartinM: Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 9:47 am) All messages in this thread [show all] MS Office: turn off auto whole-word select? (Ryan: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 3:15 pm) re: MS Office: turn off auto whole-word select? (Ricer46: Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 7:19 am) re: MS Office: turn off auto whole-word select? (MartinM: Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 9:47 am) Well... (Ricer46: Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 3:50 pm) re: Well... (MartinM: Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 6:07 pm) re: Well... (Ricer46: Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 6:56 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum