2008/2/19, Michele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Feb 17, 2008 9:20 PM, Pete Wheadon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am using OpenOffice 3.2.1. My problem is that I cannot select text > when using the writer program. In the Edit Toolbar, the text selection > command is not active or usable. I would like to be able to select text > by highlighting it using the mouse, copy it, then move and paste it as > needed. Any suggestions on how to make text selection function > work? Thank you. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > Hello Pete, > > don't know how many years of use of openoffice and I noticed for the > first time this menu entry today :-) > > here's what the online guide has to say about the select text entry > > "You can enable a selection cursor in a read-only text document or in > the Help. Choose Edit - Select Text or open the context menu of a > read-only document and choose Select Text. The selection cursor does > not blink." > > (if you ask me, a big waste of a shortcut). > > To select text "normally" without using the mouse press the shift key > in combination with the arrow keys (with CTRL to select a word at a > time), end (go to end of line, ctrl+end goes to the end of the > document), home (start of line, start of document with ctrl), etc... > Ctrl+A selects the whole document. > If you don't want to keep pressing the shift key, use the F8 key once: > now (and until you press again F8) you are in selection mode (you will > see EXT in the status bar). use the above mentioned keys to select the > desired text. > > Cheers, > > > Michele >
I have never noticed it either and I don't understand what it does, because I could select text in a read-only document with that thing set to OFF as well as ON. So what's the difference? Who created this meaningless thing anyway? J.R.
