[Peter T. Daniels]

Me, I've never tried to use F8; I simply put the cursor at the start of the selection, scroll to the end of the selection, and Shift-click at the end
point.

Your selections seem too big to try simply Shift-dragging.

On Friday, January 17, 2014 11:05:19 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Friday, January 17, 2014 3:39:12 AM UTC-7, Stefan Blom wrote:

What you are trying to do should work, assuming that Text Wrapping for the
picture is "In line with text." Such pictures are treated as (large) text
characters.

Thanks for you help so far, but it turns out the problem is not related to pictures, but there's still a problem. Here's what I know now: I have a large, fairly complicated document (sections, bookmarks, footnotes, fields,etc). There are regions even of straight text that I can't select with the Extended Selection mode --- I left-click the mouse, press F8, Extend Selection shows on the status bar, but as soon as I scroll with the mouse wheel, Extend Selection disappears from the status bar. Now the next thing I tried is copying the "difficult region" into a new (and therefore simpler) blank document. I select the text to be copied by just left-dragging with the mouse to select it and then copying it into a new document. Now everything works as desired in the new document --- the mouse wheel does not turn off the Extend Selection mode. But it still does (the mouse wheel turns off the Extend Selection mode) in the large complex original document. My conclusion is that there is something about the size/complexity of the original document that's causing the problem. Any ideas? Other parameters that are set or unset in the original that are not set the same way in a new blank document which is why the different behavior in the extracted/copied document? Wish I could post a sample document with the problem, but I can't --- the documents with the problems are pretty large, small extracts into new documents don't have the problem.