The Overeager Mouse Highlights Too Much Text
Frequently, in a Word document, I need to highlight some text that extends past my viewing area. Unfailingly, when I click and drag with my mouse and go beyond the screen, the highlighted portion just ZOOMS past where I actually wanted to copy, and I end up with highlighted pages and pages of text that I didn't want. Then, I have to click in the document to undo the highlighting and try again..
Finally, someone (my dear husband, I admit) solved this annoying problem for me. Here is how it works.
Place your cursor at the beginning of the text you want to highlight. Click your mouse once and release (do not hold). Using the vertical scroll bar on your Word window, scroll to the place you want to end. Place the cursor there and hold down the SHIFT key and click the mouse button once. Yea! The text you want to be highlighted is highlighted without the mouse racing past and highlighting more than you wanted. You can now copy and paste just like you would any other highlighted text.
Printing just a bit in Internet Explorer
Have you ever gone to a website that you only wanted to print one part of? You know, those websites that have a frame with links or ads on one side, the juicy text in the middle, and then another frame with more links or ads on the other side. You don't want to print everything, and when you go ahead and print the page, most of the time your printer will cut off the part of the website that doesn't fit on an 8 1/2 x 11 page, usually cutting off the text that you did want. Or, you just want to print part of Word document or an Excel spreadsheet; you don't need the entire document or spreadsheet, just that one little bit.
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