Hi Joe,
I feel your pain. I have the same problem in any text
editor. What works for me is to place the cursor with a
single click, scroll down with the mouse wheel or scroll
bar, then shift click to extend the selection. There is a
toggle box at the bottom of the writer window that changes
the selection mode. It can be STD, EXT or ADD. You change
the mode by clicking the box. Try it.
tc
Joe wrote:
When I select text (in OOo writer 1.1.4, Linux and Windoze 98se) using
the mouse, it works great, but as soon as I cross a page boundary, the
process accelerates so much that I completely lose control of it and
select much more than I wanted to. When I try to correct this by
backing up, the same thing happens in the opposite direction and often
goes past the starting point. This is vey frustrating and disorienting.
Is there a way to control the speed of this process, - to slow it down?
This may be OS dependent, because I think the same thing happens in
other programs.
I know I can use shift-uparrow or shift-downarrow instead of the mouse.
That's easier to control - although the text window does scroll in
blocks instead of line by line and that is a bit unsettling, but I would
still prefer to have it work better with the mouse.
Thanks.
Joe
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