Highlighting in notepad

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In my old windows 2000 version of notepad, when highlighting a large amount
of data in notepad, I could just move my mouse below the window and it would
continue to scroll down and highlight. Now in xp I have to continually move
my mouse to get the highlighting to continue scrolling down. Is there a
setting I can change to make this work the way it used to?

Also, is there a way to start highlighting, and then have it jump to the
bottom of the file (highlighting everything in-between?

Hope I'm clear on my questions.
Thanks.
 
bebbaboo said:
In my old windows 2000 version of notepad, when highlighting a large amount
of data in notepad, I could just move my mouse below the window and it would
continue to scroll down and highlight. Now in xp I have to continually move
my mouse to get the highlighting to continue scrolling down. Is there a
setting I can change to make this work the way it used to?

Also, is there a way to start highlighting, and then have it jump to the
bottom of the file (highlighting everything in-between?
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Sorry don't have any idea on your problem, but I can answer your other
question. You can highlight multiple items with the keyboard in the
manney you describe by clicking where you want the highlight to begin,
then hold down the shift key then press the "end" key.
 
Thanks Roy. That is just what I needed.

Roy Smith said:
Sorry don't have any idea on your problem, but I can answer your other
question. You can highlight multiple items with the keyboard in the
manney you describe by clicking where you want the highlight to begin,
then hold down the shift key then press the "end" key.
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Thanks for replying Don, but that's why I said I had to keep moving the mouse
... back and forth. In the old version, I just had to move the mouse below
the window and it would continue to scroll without further movement. When
you are highlighting a large amount of text the having to continually move
back and forth is a pain.
Thanks anyway.
 
bebbaboo said:
In my old windows 2000 version of notepad, when highlighting a large
amount
of data in notepad, I could just move my mouse below the window and it
would
continue to scroll down and highlight. Now in xp I have to continually
move
my mouse to get the highlighting to continue scrolling down. Is there a
setting I can change to make this work the way it used to?
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That is not a defect, but a feature to control the speed of scrolling. If
you move the pointer slightly left or right, it scrolls slowly so you don't
jump to far. Move faster and it auto scrolls faster.
Also, is there a way to start highlighting, and then have it jump to the
bottom of the file (highlighting everything in-between?

Hope I'm clear on my questions.
Thanks.
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Double click the first word you want to select, then press Ctrl+Shift+End
keys. Another way is to hold shift and use the Page Down key.

(Triple click this message to select all the text. :)
--Richard
 
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