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Ron Knight wrote:
> 
> Phil Munro <pcmunro@cc.ysu.edu> posted:
> |  I am using a 450 MHz machine with Win 98 and Office 2000.  As my
> |machines have increased in speed over the years, it is becoming much
> |harder to highlight a section of text which requires scrolling.  By
> |"much harder" I mean almost imposible!  The scroll rate when holding
> |the mouse button down and trying to move just a little bit beyond
> |screen edge turns into a "no control over the highlighting" problem.
> |  I am talking about Word wrt this problem.  Other programs like
> |Notepad do not evidence this overly fast scroll problem.
> |  Am I explaining this clearly enough?  Any ideas on what to set to
> |slow down the scroll rate?  --Phil
> 
> Maybe somebody else will have an idea, but I don't think that there
> is really an answer to your question as asked.  What you can do is
> put the cursor at the beginning of your selection, hit F8, and
> then move it to the end of your selection.  This works well for
> formatting, cutting, etc, but for some applications I have had
> trouble getting the selection extender to "let go".
> 
> Another method is to click at the start of the selection, move
> down to the end of your selection (using the scroll bar) and
> then hold down the shift key while you click the end of the
> selection.
> 
> Good luck,
> --
> Ron Knight  (rck@med.unc.edu)
  Thanks for the comments.  After posting I got some help from the 
helps, and noted the idea of clicking at the beginning and then 
*moving* to the end of my desired selection and clicking with Shift 
depressed.  But it is a mystery why the scroll is so fast with Word. 
Seems like someone programmed badly!!  --Phil
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  Phil Munro                      Dept of Electrical & Computer Engin 
  mailto:pcmunro@cc.ysu.edu               Youngstown State University
                                              Youngstown, Ohio  44555