Very sorry for making you nuts<g>...but you are right and I was wrong. This option is NOT in 2000. I just double checked and I must have reopened XP thinking I was in 2000 when I quickly checked the other day. It gets confusing with 4 version of Word on one system! Sorry...guess the option in XP "is" the fix they added to adjust the selection capabilities from 2000. So it appears your only options are to copy text from other doc or have the designers redo the form for better performance. Just curious...WHAT is it that you have to copy/paste over and over???? 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 scubic Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 1:08 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: copy/paste in Word 2000... SUE and DIAN At 08:00 PM 01/16/2003 -0600, Dian Chapman wrote > >OK...the problem is that in this document there's an option set/saved >that I never use...click Tools/Options/Compatibility and uncheck the >option that select Select Entire Field with first or last character. > >THEN you can select words with Ctrl/double click. There is no such option available in my list under Tools/Options/Compatibility. I have selected recommendations for Microsoft Word 2000. Thinking that this document may have been created on an older version of Word, I looked at setting the recommendations for all other versions. I still do not have that option available. Am I looking in the wrong place? Sue ************************************************************* 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 *************************************************************