return to worldwidereview.com, the home of critical reviews

Re: Highlighting things on the computer

From:     blp
Category: Life
Date:     20 May 2008
Time:     08:13 AM

Review:

Are you really not aware of what I'm talking about? It's worst in MS Word, but it's pretty much the same 
in internet browsers. You put your cursor at the point where you want to start highlighting and it 
assumes for you that, rather than just the first letter, you want the whole word or the whole word plus a 
bit of the punctuation that follows it or, to be doubly annoying by also bollocksing you up the other way 
round, it decides you DIDN'T actually want the word you started with and leaves it off so it ends up still 
in your text, now denuded of the context that you were allowed to highlight and delete. Please tell me 
I'm not the only one being driven nuts by this. It's like trying to stick live worms on the screen. 


return to worldwidereview.com, the home of critical reviews