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by sixbrx 4627 days ago
> 1. Word highlights text word-by-word;

I find Word's attempt to highlight word at a time to be extremely frustrating and distracting. Very often in my documents it simply will not properly recognize the boundaries of what I want to select, and small increments of the mouse produce jumps in the selection that were not intended. I think OO's behavior is a lot better in this respect.
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tanzam75 4627 days ago
> I find Word's attempt to highlight word at a time to be extremely frustrating and distracting.

Use the keyboard if you want to highlight character-by-character.

Word is simply optimizing for the most-common case: copying-and-pasting whole words, sentences, or paragraphs. It's a lot faster when you don't have to hit the exact character boundary of the word -- especially if you're using a touchpad instead of a mouse.

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wfunction 4626 days ago
It's possible to disable this in Word by the way.

Except this is the common case, so it makes sense to have it on by default.

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