Microsoft KB Archive/21604

Mouse Doesn’t Copy Collapsed Text in Outline

PSS ID Number: Q21604 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

1.x

MS-DOS

Problem:

The mouse will not copy or move collapsed text in Outline edit (the Copy and Delete/Insert commands will). Outline edit mode is when the word OUTLINE is in the bottom left corner of the screen, as opposed to text edit, when the level number is in the bottom left corner.

When a heading is selected (that has text collapsed within it) with the mouse and then either copied with a Shift-Left click or moved with a Control- Left click, only the heading is copied or moved, not the collapsed text. When this same procedure is done with the Copy/Insert or Delete/Insert commands, the collapsed text is copied (or moved) with the heading.

The text will be copied (or moved) when using a mouse, if the mouse physically moves down to the next line and that line is a higher level. For example, if you start in a level two heading and the next line is a higher level, level one. The highlight will not go into the next line because it is a higher level, but the collapsed text will be copied (or moved). If the mouse just goes horizontally to the right and does not go down, the collapsed text does not get copied (or moved).

Response:

This is a known problem; it will be fixed in the next version of Word after 3.1.

TAR59966

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