New behavior in WordXP ?- click beyond end of line selects line

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Richard Otter

I have recently switched to Ofice XP from 2000 and Word is acting
differently than I remember the 2000 version behaving.

When I have a document open, say, just text, and I click in the document
beyond the end of a line, the entire line at the cursor is selected.
I want the cursor to go to the end of the text in the line I clcicked.

I searched throught all of the Options and compatibility items 3 times
without luck.

Anybody have the (probably obvious) answer ?

Richard
 
To get the insertion point to the end of the line, press the End key. This
will also unselect the text.

Hi,

I get the behavior you describe (in Word 2003) when I click before the
beginning of the line, when the mouse cursor is an arrow rather than the
I-beam. It stays an I-Beam when the cursor is to the right of the line.

Check Tools => Options => Edit

Do you have the "Click and type" option enabled? This still shouldn't select
the line, but could be a part of what you are seeing.

(In Word 2002, this might be on the last page of the Tools => Customize
dialog. I seem to remember it being hidden there in some version.)

The only other thing I can think of is a sticking Shift key causing
extension of the selection but I would think that would show up in other
ways as well.
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Thanks, but that is what I'm doing now.


I've since polled two other Word 2002 /XP users in my office and they don't
have this behavior. So it's something I did.

Richard
 
Sorry-
I didn't see all of the last message.

I turned off "Click and type", but it was not the cause.

I should mention that when the cursor is at the left end of a line, it has a
hollow arrow shape, pointing up and to the right. (as expected)
When the cursor is at the right end of the line, it is also a hollow arrow,
but pointing up and to the left. I have't seen this cursor shape before.

PS - My shift key seems fine :).
 
Charles said:
To get the insertion point to the end of the line, press the End key. This
will also unselect the text.

Hi,

I get the behavior you describe (in Word 2003) when I click before the
beginning of the line, when the mouse cursor is an arrow rather than the
I-beam. It stays an I-Beam when the cursor is to the right of the line.

Check Tools => Options => Edit

Do you have the "Click and type" option enabled? This still shouldn't select
the line, but could be a part of what you are seeing.

(In Word 2002, this might be on the last page of the Tools => Customize
dialog. I seem to remember it being hidden there in some version.)

The only other thing I can think of is a sticking Shift key causing
extension of the selection but I would think that would show up in other
ways as well.
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Hi Richard,

I had the same problem, and Graham Mayor made the correct diagnosis:

I had support for a right-to-left language installed (Arab, Hebrew...).

If you don't need that language support, uninstalling should fix the problem
(Microsoft Office Tools > Microsoft Office Language Settings).

Greetings,
Klaus
 
Excellent !

You are right.

I figured it must have been something I did, but I didn't remember that
the setting was in an external utility!

Thanks very much !

Richard Otter
 
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