How do I turn off “auto-highlight”? You know, when you are highlighting something with the mouse so that you can cut and paste (ie, do homework) and the computer automatically highlights an entire word or phrase. I AM SO FRIGGIN SICK OF IT TRYING TO CORRECT ME!!! Especially when I am copying web addresses and the computer decides “Oh, well he will obviously want to highlight the blank-space in front of the word”.
NO I DON’T!!!
So how do I turn this off? It did not exist before win95.
Well, if you’re using MS Word 2000, pick “Options” from the “Tools” menu and go to the “Edit” tab. Uncheck “When selecting, automatically select entire word.”
If you’re “copying” from Internet Explorer, I’m afraid you’re S.O.L. When you are highlighting, Just drag the mouse back-and-forth a half dozen times and it may go away.
Irritates me too.
I hate this too.
Some applications seem to have the following marginally less annoying behavior:
If you click and drag, you get auto-select.
Use this to highlight an entire word. Then, reverse direction, and you start to unhighlight, but now you are unhighlighting letter by letter.
It still makes it impossible to arbitrarily select both ends of the selection, but it’s better than zero.
The auto-highlight is extremely annoying…you can get around it by clicking where you want the highlighting to begin, hold the shift key and click where you want the highlighting to end…no dragging, so no auto-select.
This works in every word processor I’ve used, but unfortunately not in Internet Explorer. It does work in Netscape 6.2, though.
Actually, this works fine in my internet explorer.
Clicking somewhere, then shift-clicking somewhere else will highlight a block of text immeadiately. Or clicking somewhere, then hitting shift and moving the mouse will continually highlight without auto-highlighting.