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by devinefv

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I all my M.S Word and my text files as well. When I go to select/highlight my text.
AfterI select my text, and I proceed to Unselect parts, or skip some parts and Continue selecting more text, the previous text I selected gets unhighlighted. Thisd is driving me nuts! It's really impedeing all my efforts! Help me PLEASE!
Thanks

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by joseph moore

Oh, I see what you are saying. What you are trying to do is NOT how highlighting works in a text document. It is not like in Excel, where you can CTRL+click to highlight separate, non-connected cells.
Text is different. If you highlight one section of text, you CANNOT select a different UNCONNECTED section of text while keeping the 1st section selected!

Only 1 section of text (can be separated by carriage returns) can be highlighted at one time.

So, it is working like it should.

hope this helps clear things up.

by lbelle

Sorry, my friend, although you deserve an A+ for attempted multi-tasking, you cannot highlight multiple items at the same time. You have to highlight one item at a time.

by tfulcher

I see two answers that say you can't do this and one answer that says you can, so I'll even the score here. I currently run Word 2003, and I can very easily highlight additional portions of text by simply holding down the CTRL key while I highlight each additional portion. It works very well.

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