People have told me about that one before and it works, but I keep
forgetting about it.
Thanks.
Joe
Anthony Chilco wrote:
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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