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> 1. Word highlights text word-by-word; I find Word's attempt to highlight word at a time to be extremely frustrating and distracting. Very often in my docume
by sixbrx 13y ago
> 1. Word highlights text word-by-word;
I find Word's attempt to highlight word at a time to be extremely frustrating and distracting. Very often in my documents it simply will not properly recognize the boundaries of what I want to select, and small increments of the mouse produce jumps in the selection that were not intended. I think OO's behavior is a lot better in this respect.
- tanzam75 13y ago> I find Word's attempt to highlight word at a time to be extremely frustrating and distracting. Use the keyboard if you want to highlight character-by-character. Word is simply optimizing for the most-common case: copying-and-pasting whole words, sentences, or paragraphs. It's a lot faster when you don't have to hit the exact character boundary of the word -- especially if you're using a touchpad instead of a mouse.
- wfunction 13y agoIt's possible to disable this in Word by the way. Except this is the common case, so it makes sense to have it on by default.