*sigh*

[netmouse]

I wish there was a way to tell my whole computer, once and forever, "do NOT ever select the whole word automatically when I am editing". When I am moving the mouse to select something, I would like to select the part I indicate, thank you, not random other things too.

Whoever invented that option and made it the default in many programs has a special circle of hell waiting, I think.

Comments

[branchandroot]

Yes. Yes, they do. And also the person who programmed the auto-capitalize that does it /again/ even after you go back and edit the word down to lower case.

[shekkara.livejournal.com]

Where does that happen to you? When I re-edit it down, MS Word generally leaves it alone -- in that instance. (I guess I could turn off the feature.)

[branchandroot]

In my Word for Mac (c. 2004 if I recall). Drives me nuts.

[mbumby.livejournal.com]

In Word for Windows, one can at least add special words (some abbreviations for military ranks, for example, really do have 2 caps at the start) to the dictionary, which will stop those words from being edited "for" you.

[http://users.livejournal.com/jer_/]

It depends on how you edit it. When I'm thinking, I finish the word then change the capital; that solves the problem. When I'm typing at speed, I tend to backspace through the capital and retype, which then gets recapitalized.

Irritating.