Word Options-Advanced

[Gwyn]

What are"smart paragraph selections" and "smart cursoring" which are default
settings in Word Options, Advanced, allowing in Word?

 

[Stefan Blom]

From Word Help:
Use smart paragraph selection Select this option to select the paragraph
mark when you select a whole paragraph. If you include the paragraph mark
when you cut and paste a paragraph, you don't leave a blank paragraph, and
your formatting automatically stays with the paragraph.

Use smart cursoring Select this option to specify that the cursor moves as
you scroll up or down. When you press the LEFT ARROW, RIGHT ARROW, UP ARROW,
or DOWN ARROW keys after you scroll, the cursor responds at the page
currently in view, not at its previous position.

Note that although Help is far from perfect, in the Word Options dialog box
it actually gives you useful information (just press F1 with the dialog box
open).

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Further note that both of these options are inventions of the devil. Often
you want to format portions of a paragraph *without* including the paragraph
mark, but Word has a tendency to include it. And if you want to select a
long portion of the document, you need to be able to scroll the view
*without* moving the insertion point so that you can Shift+Click at the end
of the selection.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Stefan Blom]

Good point. I should have mentioned that I keep the options turned off.