OT - minor windows question
 

you know how if you're selecting things with the mouse cursor windows will modify your selection on the fly? is there any way to turn that off? i find it almost never selects what i want.

Re: OT - minor windows question
 

Huh?

Holding the ctrl key will allow you to select/deselect individual items to add/remove them to your current selection. Holding shift will allow you to select a contiguous group of items, starting from the Last clicked on item. Holding ctrl + shift will allow you to add a contiguous set of items to a previously selected set of items, starting from the Last ctrl-clicked on item.

Re: OT - minor windows question
 

oh, sorry, should have been more specific. and it's wordpad specific, now that i'm thinking. open up wordpad, type a sentence and try to select it.

Re: OT - minor windows question
 

Ok. It seems to select the sentence just fine for me. Can you please be more specific?

Re: OT - minor windows question
 

I assume you're referring to Windows's habit of highlighting an entire word when you just want a portion, or selecting a word and the following space when you just want the word. It annoys me, too. I eventually get it to select what I want by jiggling the cursor back and forth—eventually, it gets the right idea.

Re: OT - minor windows question
 

i modify it's selection with the arrow keys or just use the arrow keys. but it's still annoying.

Re: OT - minor windows question
 

If you try highlighting from left to right, it will highlight the whole word/phrase/sentence.

Try highlighting from right to left instead.

Also, if you begin highlighting a portion, and you catch the space before the word/sentence/phrase, it will automatically highlight the whole word, so start highlighting at the first letter.

Did this make any sense?

Re: OT - minor windows question
 

yep. i take it you can't turn it off?

Re: OT - minor windows question
 

I don't believe you can, but then again, email microsoft and ask them.

Re: OT - minor windows question
 

Go to View / Options;
Select Options tag;
Uncheck the "Automatic word selection" box.

And I find it annoying too. If I want to select an entire word, I'll select the entire word damnit, I don't want my software to be designed with the assumption that I always want to select everything (especially annoying with URLs).