She just has to uncheck the option that selects all the field. Dian Chapman Technical Consultant, Instructor, Microsoft MVP & TechTrax Editor Word AutoForm/VBA eBook: http://www.mousetrax.com/books.html Tutorial web site: http://www.mousetrax.com/techpage.html TechTrax Ezine: http://www.mousetrax.com/techtrax/ -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kathy Jacobs Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 8:28 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: copy/paste in Word 2000... SUE and DIAN Hi - Kathy here.... I get a little different results, but I also found a possible workaround... First, the results with Word XP: When I double click on any word in the cell in Word XP, it selects everything from there to the nearest end of the field. That is, unless it was the first or last word, then it usually selects the whole thing. Next, the results with Open Office: The document opens as an unprotected document. So, next step: I tried unprotecting the document. Guess what? I get the results everyone else is seeing only if I actually arrow into the field. (Otherwise, it just replaces the field definition with the text.) Also - Saw Dian's note and that does work. However, another weirdness is that in the process of testing I tried a "Tools" ->"Fix Broken Text..." This caused a death in the process. After recovering the document, Word let me select a single word, as long as I was in the same field. When I left the field it went back to the way it was, but the Fix Broken Text option wasn't enabled anymore. Kathryn Jacobs, BrainBench MVP MS PowerPoint Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com Cook anything outdoors with http://www.outdoorcook.com Kathy is a trainer, writer, Girl Scout, parent, and whatever else there is time for I believe life is meant to be lived. But: if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles ************************************************************* ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************