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Tangential: Microsoft's automatic selection of whole words and sentences is the single biggest productivity drain in my professional career (all my attempts to
by dandare 7y ago
Tangential: Microsoft's automatic selection of whole words and sentences is the single biggest productivity drain in my professional career (all my attempts to disable it failed so far).
- spongeb00b 7y agoFor anyone having to deal with this on Microsoft Word on the Mac it can be disabled through Word’s preferences.
- dandare 7y agoThe setting does not apply to Outlook when writing/editing emails, only when reading emails. Then, from my experience, the setting will be reverted with the next Word update :(.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoGah, I've just started with MS Word (after a long hiatus) and was wondering why it always grabs surrounding punctuation into the selection (even when the punctuation 'points' the wrong way, it seems).
- jraph 7y agoI remember being annoyed by that years ago the few times I used Windows. I am used to triple-click+drag to achieve this when I need it. When I actually don't want to select words, it gets in the way. One can probably use the keyboard for precise things like that though. I can see triple-clicking+drag being tricky and that most people probably want to select entire words most of the time anyway, so I don't know what the best solution is. I'd argue that selections need handles like on mobile operating systems so it can be edited afterwards.