Text Selection Question

[dgk]

Not really an Office specific question, but it causes me the most
headaches in Word. When I drag with the mouse to select some text and
reach the bottom or top of the page, I cannot find a way to keep
selecting a few lines or paragraphs. The whole document just races by.
I've tried using arrow keys and that has the same result.

Any hints about what to do at the bottom of a page to just keep
selecting slowly?

 

[Beth Melton]

You have a few choices:

- Downgrade you computer to a slower processor
- Upgrade your version of Office to Office XP or Office 2003

Of course I'm sure none of the above are feasible right now. ;-) Prior
to Office SP the scroll speed was tied to your processor. The faster
the processor, the faster you get to the end of the document.

If you have a wheel mouse you can hold the left button and roll wheel
to select or click where you want to start your selection, scroll
(without moving the cursor) to where you want to end your selection,
hold Shift and click. You can also use Shift and keyboard navigation,
up/down, etc.

Or double-click "EXT" in the status bar (or F8) to turn on "Extend
Selection". Then you can select by paragraph (press Enter to select to
the next paragraph mark), by sentence, (press the period to select to
the next period), etc. Press ESC or double-click "EXT" to turn off
Extend Selection.

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[dgk]

You have a few choices:

- Downgrade you computer to a slower processor
- Upgrade your version of Office to Office XP or Office 2003

Of course I'm sure none of the above are feasible right now. ;-) Prior
to Office SP the scroll speed was tied to your processor. The faster
the processor, the faster you get to the end of the document.

If you have a wheel mouse you can hold the left button and roll wheel
to select or click where you want to start your selection, scroll
(without moving the cursor) to where you want to end your selection,
hold Shift and click. You can also use Shift and keyboard navigation,
up/down, etc.

Or double-click "EXT" in the status bar (or F8) to turn on "Extend
Selection". Then you can select by paragraph (press Enter to select to
the next paragraph mark), by sentence, (press the period to select to
the next period), etc. Press ESC or double-click "EXT" to turn off
Extend Selection.

Thanks for all of these, it is a great help. Now I just have to break
the habit of starting the drag. I never even noticed the EXT or other
status bar thingies, probably because they're all greyed out. That is
bad design I would think. Who would guess that doubleclicking
something that is greyed out will turn it on?

I need to play with EXT to see how it works.

And scrolling tied to CPU speed? That should have been fixed when we
went from 6 to 10 mhz.

I actually do have Office2003 on another machine but haven't had a
chance to do much with it yet. I'll give it a try and see how the
scrolling works.

 

[Beth Melton]

Well...double-clicking them isn't the only way to turn them on.
They'll appear bold if you are utilizing one of the functions, such as
recording a macro or using Overtype mode. Double-clicking is just an
added convenience.

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assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

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MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/