Forum Discussion
Highlighting words in Outlook. Option to not select entire word
I once changed a setting that got rid of that horrible 'highlighting the entire word' when I'm holding shift and using the arrows to select text.
I was able to turn this off before but I can't for the life of me remember where it is.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, when you highlight a word in the editor using your arrow keys, you may want to delete part of a word, not the whole thing. but by default Outlook 365 automatically grabs not only the entire word, but it also selects the spaces before the word.
I found a way to turn this off and the highlighting worked as I expected, i just can't find that option anymore.
thoughts?
koustubhmasurkar, three years on this is still great advice. Thank you!
This option is turned off and Outlook STILL highlights the whole word, sentence, etc when I don't want it to. Seriously Microsoft, you guys screw up the smallest things constantly. Your OS is garbage and I'm convinced you'll never get your act together. You're a bunch of hacks who cornered the market and I really wish you'd go bankrupt and give someone else a shot at a decent OS. You suck.
Ugh, this always happens to me. 10 minutes after posting i find the solution.
options, editor options, advanced
uncheck 'when selecting, automatically select entire word'
for anyone that's not tried it, you may find it useful.
