Double-click word selection going overboard

When I double-click a word to bold or underline, the space after it
gets selected as well. Except for Word, no other program on the Mac
does this!

How do I get double-click to select just the word like every other
program on Mac? (I want this in Word as well, though it does the
underlining correctly, unlike Entourage.) This bug is annoying me to
pieces.

Diane
Sat Jul 21 16:35:41 CDT 2007

On 7/21/07 10:11 AM, in article
1185037867.681816.111330@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com, "Keysaw"
<kaesau@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> When I double-click a word to bold or underline, the space after it
> gets selected as well. Except for Word, no other program on the Mac
> does this!
>
> How do I get double-click to select just the word like every other
> program on Mac? (I want this in Word as well, though it does the
> underlining correctly, unlike Entourage.) This bug is annoying me to
> pieces.

Look in Entourage preferences under General. Deselect "Use Microsoft Office
keyboard shortcuts for editing text".


--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

Jolly
Sat Jul 21 18:15:54 CDT 2007

On 2007-07-21 16:35:41 -0500, Diane Ross
<diane@invalid.entourage.mvps.org> said:

> On 7/21/07 10:11 AM, in article
> 1185037867.681816.111330@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com, "Keysaw"
> <kaesau@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> When I double-click a word to bold or underline, the space after it
>> gets selected as well. Except for Word, no other program on the Mac
>> does this!
>>
>> How do I get double-click to select just the word like every other
>> program on Mac? (I want this in Word as well, though it does the
>> underlining correctly, unlike Entourage.) This bug is annoying me to
>> pieces.
>
> Look in Entourage preferences under General. Deselect "Use Microsoft Office
> keyboard shortcuts for editing text".

Unfortunately, in my experience, that preference setting has no effect
on whether Entourage selects the space following a word when you
double-click a word.

--
JR

William
Mon Jul 23 20:44:37 CDT 2007

Keysaw wrote:
> When I double-click a word to bold or underline, the space after it
> gets selected as well. Except for Word, no other program on the Mac
> does this!
>
> How do I get double-click to select just the word like every other
> program on Mac? (I want this in Word as well, though it does the
> underlining correctly, unlike Entourage.) This bug is annoying me to
> pieces.
>

Command + click the word. Not as nice as being able to double-click but
you'll get the results you're after.

Hope this helps!

--
bill

William M. Smith
(Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows)

Keysaw
Thu Jul 26 08:48:20 CDT 2007

On Jul 23, 8:44 pm, William Smith <meckli...@REM0VETH1S.comcast.net>
wrote:
> Keysaw wrote:
> > When I double-click a word to bold or underline, the space after it
> > gets selected as well. Except for Word, no other program on the Mac
> > does this!
>
> > How do I get double-click to select just the word like every other
> > program on Mac? (I want this in Word as well, though it does the
> > underlining correctly, unlike Entourage.) This bug is annoying me to
> > pieces.
>
> Command + click the word. Not as nice as being able to double-click but
> you'll get the results you're after.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> --
> bill
>
> William M. Smith
> (Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows)

Cool, that is at least a decent workaround, though I will have to get
used to it.

I've already submitted the bug for both Word and Entourage, but I have
no idea if MS will ever address it. Since MS applications on Windoze
have the same problem, someone at MS must think it is supposed to work
this way. I would at least like the option for it to work the normal
way.

Keith