re: Turning off "select entire words" in IE Friday, October 16, 2009 at 3:08 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Mike (2 messages posted) Thanks for the replies so far. Martin: You describe the behavior correctly. Within a word, click-dragging selects one character at a time. It selects whole words when you select any part of two or more words. Using the arrow keys is one work-around. The other work-around requires some dexterity: Using the mouse, drag the selection forward from the first word into second word (as normal), then drag it backwards into the first word again, then drag forward again into the second word--that seems to shut off automatic word selection. Neither of these work arounds are very convenient, IMHO. As I mentioned, this awful feature can be shut off under the Options window in most other MS apps, but it seems hardcoded in IE8. If there's any way to fix this, I assume it's in the registry. But I'll wait a couple more days to see if anyone knows. And then, I'll probably switch to FF. I really dislike this behavior. Written in response to: re: Turning off "select entire words" in IE (MartinM: Friday, October 16, 2009 at 2:25 pm) Responses to this message: re: Turning off "select entire words" in IE (MartinM: Friday, October 16, 2009 at 5:24 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Turning off "select entire words" in IE (Mike: Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 1:50 pm) re: Turning off "select entire words" in IE (Ricer46: Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 6:52 pm) re: Turning off "select entire words" in IE (MartinM: Fri, Oct 16, 2009, 2:25 pm) re: Turning off "select entire words" in IE (Mike: Fri, Oct 16, 2009, 3:08 pm) re: Turning off "select entire words" in IE (MartinM: Fri, Oct 16, 2009, 5:24 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 XP Discussion Forum