Trouble selecting cells or objects with mouse, Re: Trouble selecting cells or objects with mouse. I'm not having this issue anywhere except for MS Word, and now too with Excel--so it seems the MS Office (I'm running MS Office 2011 for Mac) is the only culprit. To select text letter by letter, place the cursor at the starting point, hold down the Shift key, then press the Left or Right arrow keys. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission, which supports our community. I had a similar problem, not involving Ctrl key, but this was the first thing that came up in Google when I searched for help so thought I'd post my solution here for others. The double-click selects the full word you have the cursor on, then you can continue to drag the cursor to highlight word by word. We suggest checking the drive of your mouse to ensure it's up-to-date. What differentiates living as mere roommates from living in a marriage-like relationship? Ah, yes that thought occured to me when you mentioned themes -- although it hasn't been since Win98 days that I can recall just what the selection issue was that caused it. This also means that I can't drag anything like text that I have selected with the keyboard or table widths or tabs in the ruler barThe cause was unknown until today when I narrowed it down to the `Ctrl` key.That is, as soon as I use the `Ctrl` key (for copy, paste, undo or even by itself for the purpose of this test), my ability to select and drag is gone.There are no sticky keys. Does the 500-table limit still apply to the latest version of Cassandra? Clean your Macs trackpad and mouse. The text is highlighted letter by letter, as shown below. With freeze panes activated scrolling with the scroll gesture on my mouse pad (two finger swipe) disconnects the content scroll position from the scroll bar position - I can see this happening; when I scroll with the mouse pad the page scrolls but the scroll bar doesn't move. For some reason I am unable to select text the normal way. Triple-tap a word to select the sentence containing that word. I'm having the same problem, and the proposed fix in post #7 didn't help. By clicking Accept all cookies, you agree Stack Exchange can store cookies on your device and disclose information in accordance with our Cookie Policy.
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