How To Turn off Automatic Word Selection In Microsoft Office; Microsoft Word, Outlook, etc.
- Open Word, Excel, etc.
- Go to File, Options, then Advanced.
- Look for the option, "When selecting, automatically select the entire word" (it is enabled by default).
- You disable the 'feature' by deselecting its checkbox.
- Now Office will not automatically select the entire word when trying to select specific text!
