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Clicking to position the cursor at end of line
I often find myself wanting to click the mouse to put the cursor at the end of
the last line of a paragraph so I can continue editing there. Unfortunately, I find that when I do this, Word often selects the entire line, which I then overwrite when I start typing. Not what I want. Instead, it seems that I have to either click somewhere very close to the last character in the line or click somewhere in the line, then hit "End" to move to the end of the line. This is slower and, to me, extremely counterintuitive -- none of the other programs I use regularly behaves this way. Can somebody explain to me why Word selects the line I'm clicking to the right of and how this behavior could possibly benefit me? Also, is there any way to turn this behavior off? I'm using Word 2002. Thanks, Scott |
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Clicking to position the cursor at end of line
Word doesn't normally behave the way you describe. Every (English)
version I've ever seen leaves the cursor at the end of the line when you click to the right. It's possible that you've somehow gotten a right-to-left language enabled, maybe by pasting something from another document or web page. Look in Control Panel Regional and Language Options Languages, and also in Start Programs Microsoft Office Office Tools Language Settings, to see if you have support enabled for anything other than English. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:32:57 -0700, Scott Meyers wrote: I often find myself wanting to click the mouse to put the cursor at the end of the last line of a paragraph so I can continue editing there. Unfortunately, I find that when I do this, Word often selects the entire line, which I then overwrite when I start typing. Not what I want. Instead, it seems that I have to either click somewhere very close to the last character in the line or click somewhere in the line, then hit "End" to move to the end of the line. This is slower and, to me, extremely counterintuitive -- none of the other programs I use regularly behaves this way. Can somebody explain to me why Word selects the line I'm clicking to the right of and how this behavior could possibly benefit me? Also, is there any way to turn this behavior off? I'm using Word 2002. Thanks, Scott |
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Jay Freedman wrote:
It's possible that you've somehow gotten a right-to-left language enabled, maybe by pasting something from another document or web page. Look in Control Panel Regional and Language Options Languages, and also in Start Programs Microsoft Office Office Tools Language Settings, to see if you have support enabled for anything other than English. Office XP must have installed support for multiple languages by default, because there were a number of non-English languages enabled, but disabling all except US English does not change Word's behavior. However, I've noticed something else. When I move the cursor to the left of a line, I get a hollow right-pointing cursor that indicates that clicking will select the entire line. When I move the cursor to the right of a line, I get a yellow left-pointing cursor whose upper part is shaded (to make it look 3D) that indicates that clicking will select the entire line. Any idea what the significance of the yellow cursor is? Again, only English is enabled in Office and in Win2K, but clicking to the right of a line in word selects the entire line. Very irksome. Thanks for all help and suggestions, Scott |
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Very definitely you have a right to left language enabled.
-- Terry Farrell - Word MVP http://word.mvps.org/ "Scott Meyers" wrote in message ... : Jay Freedman wrote: : It's possible that you've somehow gotten a right-to-left language : enabled, maybe by pasting something from another document or web page. : Look in Control Panel Regional and Language Options Languages, and : also in Start Programs Microsoft Office Office Tools Language : Settings, to see if you have support enabled for anything other than : English. : : Office XP must have installed support for multiple languages by default, because : there were a number of non-English languages enabled, but disabling all except : US English does not change Word's behavior. However, I've noticed something : else. When I move the cursor to the left of a line, I get a hollow : right-pointing cursor that indicates that clicking will select the entire line. : When I move the cursor to the right of a line, I get a yellow left-pointing : cursor whose upper part is shaded (to make it look 3D) that indicates that : clicking will select the entire line. Any idea what the significance of the : yellow cursor is? Again, only English is enabled in Office and in Win2K, but : clicking to the right of a line in word selects the entire line. Very irksome. : : Thanks for all help and suggestions, : : Scott |
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TF wrote:
Very definitely you have a right to left language enabled. Well, as I said, only English is enabled in Word and my OS. Suggestions? Scott |
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Clicking to position the cursor at end of line
Hi Scott,
I solved a similar problem by nuking some registry entries. The story is at http://groups.google.com/group/micro...ab08d07f?hl=en. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Scott Meyers wrote: TF wrote: Very definitely you have a right to left language enabled. Well, as I said, only English is enabled in Word and my OS. Suggestions? Scott |
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Clicking to position the cursor at end of line
Click in various positions in your document. You may be surprised to find
that parts of it are indeed tied to another language (it's the document and not your settings that determine this). We've addressed what to do in those circumstances pretty thoroughly now but if this is what is required, come back and we'll go through it again. "Scott Meyers" wrote in message ... TF wrote: Very definitely you have a right to left language enabled. Well, as I said, only English is enabled in Word and my OS. Suggestions? Scott |
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Jay Freedman wrote:
Hi Scott, I solved a similar problem by nuking some registry entries. The story is at http://groups.google.com/group/micro...ab08d07f?hl=en. This seems to have worked for me, too. With any luck, it won't have any unpleasant side effects. Thanks for the suggestion. Scott |
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