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Yep, that works. Thanks all.

On Saturday, January 18, 2014 6:04:28 PM UTC-7, Stefan Blom wrote:
i agree: holding Shift and clicking at the end of the selection should do

the trick in most cases...



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"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message

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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.