Microsoft KB Archive/63620

Block Selection Does Not Include Text in Negative Ruler

PSS ID Number: Q63620 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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In Microsoft Word for the Macintosh versions 3.x and 4.0, you can select a block of text by holding down the OPTION key and dragging the mouse over the text.

However, if the text being selected is in the negative area of the ruler (the left indent marker has been moved to the left of 0 [zero]), the block-selection technique will not work. Nothing will be selected, and the insertion point will be positioned where the block selection would have started.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Word versions 3.0, 3.01, 3.02, and 4.00. This problem was corrected in Word version 5.0.

KBCategory: kbusage buglist4.00 fixlist5.00 KBSubcategory: Additional reference words: 3.00 3.01 3.02 4.00 5.00 3.0 4.0 5.0 macword macword5 ====================================================================== ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1997.