You can't. It is actually a really valuable feature -- or at least, it is
once you find out about it
Most of the "numbering" problems in Word come from having a group of
paragraphs that all look the same yet are not all in the "same" list.
When you move your cursor onto the bullet or number character at the
beginning of such a paragraph, Word highlights all of the paragraphs that
are in the "current" list, so you can see at a glance which ones are a
member of a different list.
Once you know how it works, you can resolve numbering problems at a glance.
It's documented in the Help Topic "When I change bullets or numbers in a
list, not all bullets or numbers change."
But "Sorry", you can't turn it off. You can, however, override its
functionality. Place the following macro in your Normal template and assign
it to the Option + Down Arrow and Command + Down Arrow keystrokes:
Sub newParaDown()
' Overrides lit item select to go to the first word of the next paragraph.
Selection.MoveDown Unit:=wdParagraph, Count:=1
Selection.MoveStartUntil
Cset:="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz",
Count:=wdForward
End Sub
Be careful of the long lines: the Selection.Move... Statements are each on a
single line, you will get a compile error if they wrap.
For more:
http://word.mvps.org/mac/installmacro.html
Cheers
In Word 98 I used option-down arrow and option-up arrow to move to the
next or previous paragraph. Now, in Word 2004, if a paragraph has a
bullet, the cursor moves to the left of the bullet, and every single
bullet in the document is selected (in grey). So I have to press the
keystroke again to get where I wanted to go in the first place. This
takes a couple of seconds for each paragraph, because MS Word selects
every single bullet then deselects them again.
How do I turn off this really annoying "feature"?
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