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February 13th, 2004, 08:39 PM
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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.
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February 13th, 2004, 08:47 PM
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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.
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February 13th, 2004, 10:03 PM
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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.
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February 13th, 2004, 10:12 PM
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Re: OT - minor windows question
Ok. It seems to select the sentence just fine for me. Can you please be more specific?
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February 13th, 2004, 11:23 PM
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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.
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February 14th, 2004, 12:15 AM
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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.
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February 14th, 2004, 12:28 AM
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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?
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February 14th, 2004, 12:41 AM
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Re: OT - minor windows question
yep. i take it you can't turn it off?
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February 14th, 2004, 01:45 AM
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Re: OT - minor windows question
I don't believe you can, but then again, email microsoft and ask them.
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February 14th, 2004, 02:48 AM
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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).
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