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Word 2003 - selecting lines of text
Hi,
I have just rolled out Office 2003 to our users and a handful are complaining that selecting lines of text is not working as it should. Their documents start after a couple of tabs, so they do not start right at the left side of the document but about a 1/4 of the way in - when they put their cursor at the beginning of the first word in each line, their cursor doesn't change to the "arrow" to allow them to select the line of text. The only way this happens is if they move their cursor to the left hand side of the document and then they can select the line (does that make sense??). I tried this myself by opening up a "normal" doc where the left and right margins are default and sure enough the cursor changes to an arrow at the beginning of each new line. If I select a paragraph and tab along until the text starts half way across the page, the cursor will only change if it is still placed at the far left hand side and not the beginning of the sentence. Probably nothing can be done and I just need to "manage my users expectations" but thought I would ask!! Thanks. Mike |
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You need to teach your users to use indents instead of tabs. If they're
really inserting tab characters, then those characters are part of the paragraph, which still begins at the left margin, and the mouse pointer must be in the left margin in order to select the line/paragraph. If an indent (left or first-line) is used instead, then the paragraph can be selected with the mouse just to the left of the first word. Note, too, that even when tab characters are required, you should rarely need to insert more than one; this is a symptom of using the default built-in tab stops instead of setting custom ones where they're needed; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/SettingTabs.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mike Goodson" wrote in message ... Hi, I have just rolled out Office 2003 to our users and a handful are complaining that selecting lines of text is not working as it should. Their documents start after a couple of tabs, so they do not start right at the left side of the document but about a 1/4 of the way in - when they put their cursor at the beginning of the first word in each line, their cursor doesn't change to the "arrow" to allow them to select the line of text. The only way this happens is if they move their cursor to the left hand side of the document and then they can select the line (does that make sense??). I tried this myself by opening up a "normal" doc where the left and right margins are default and sure enough the cursor changes to an arrow at the beginning of each new line. If I select a paragraph and tab along until the text starts half way across the page, the cursor will only change if it is still placed at the far left hand side and not the beginning of the sentence. Probably nothing can be done and I just need to "manage my users expectations" but thought I would ask!! Thanks. Mike |
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Many thanks Suzanne.
Mike "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You need to teach your users to use indents instead of tabs. If they're really inserting tab characters, then those characters are part of the paragraph, which still begins at the left margin, and the mouse pointer must be in the left margin in order to select the line/paragraph. If an indent (left or first-line) is used instead, then the paragraph can be selected with the mouse just to the left of the first word. Note, too, that even when tab characters are required, you should rarely need to insert more than one; this is a symptom of using the default built-in tab stops instead of setting custom ones where they're needed; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/SettingTabs.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mike Goodson" wrote in message ... Hi, I have just rolled out Office 2003 to our users and a handful are complaining that selecting lines of text is not working as it should. Their documents start after a couple of tabs, so they do not start right at the left side of the document but about a 1/4 of the way in - when they put their cursor at the beginning of the first word in each line, their cursor doesn't change to the "arrow" to allow them to select the line of text. The only way this happens is if they move their cursor to the left hand side of the document and then they can select the line (does that make sense??). I tried this myself by opening up a "normal" doc where the left and right margins are default and sure enough the cursor changes to an arrow at the beginning of each new line. If I select a paragraph and tab along until the text starts half way across the page, the cursor will only change if it is still placed at the far left hand side and not the beginning of the sentence. Probably nothing can be done and I just need to "manage my users expectations" but thought I would ask!! Thanks. Mike |
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