Select Whole Word
Oct. 17th, 2007 12:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muck_a_luckWell, I can't let a day go by without asking why they are such jerkwads.
One thing I have hated about Word upgrades is that every time I have to change 50 defaults to make the software work right.
One default was the "Select Whole Word" default. It makes it so when you are using your mouse to highlight text, it will not select partial words. I always go to the editing menu or whatever it was and turn that "feature" off.
Wellll...
Word 2007 has the same "feature." And in supreme irritation, I could NOT find a menu that would let me turn it off. I had to move on with my day, so I gritted my teeth and began editing and discovered that yes, it highlights the whole word right away, but if you pull the mouse back, it will draw the highlight back to where ever you place the mouse.
*sigh*
Stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I do not understand the mentality that would think of all the time you save by selecting whole word, without considering all the irritation of adjusting the selection after the computer does whatever the fuck it wants, rather than what you told it to do in the first place.
That's the problem with Word. It's damned uppity.
On the upside, it has yet to automatically create any lists on me. But I haven't really given it any chances to do that yet. Trying not to borrow trouble...
One thing I have hated about Word upgrades is that every time I have to change 50 defaults to make the software work right.
One default was the "Select Whole Word" default. It makes it so when you are using your mouse to highlight text, it will not select partial words. I always go to the editing menu or whatever it was and turn that "feature" off.
Wellll...
Word 2007 has the same "feature." And in supreme irritation, I could NOT find a menu that would let me turn it off. I had to move on with my day, so I gritted my teeth and began editing and discovered that yes, it highlights the whole word right away, but if you pull the mouse back, it will draw the highlight back to where ever you place the mouse.
*sigh*
Stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I do not understand the mentality that would think of all the time you save by selecting whole word, without considering all the irritation of adjusting the selection after the computer does whatever the fuck it wants, rather than what you told it to do in the first place.
That's the problem with Word. It's damned uppity.
On the upside, it has yet to automatically create any lists on me. But I haven't really given it any chances to do that yet. Trying not to borrow trouble...
