Highlighting text

[Roger Fink]

In Word 97/WIN98SE I find it almost impossible to highlight text for copying
or deleting using the mouse if the text goes over onto the next page. Once
the document starts scrolling it's on a hair trigger and I can't control it.
Through a user defined setting, or a registry hack, or some other way, is
there any way to control this? Last resort, but I'll accept it if there is
no better solution, would be to block out the text with keyboard commands
like we used to do in Wordstar. I believe in computer science this is
referred to as "a step backwards".

 

[garfield-n-odie]

You can use the keyboard to select text in Word 97 by clicking at the
beginning of the selection area, holding down the Shift key, and
pressing the arrow keys. You can select whole paragraphs by pressing
Ctrl+Shift+DownArrow or Ctrl+Shift+UpArrow.