Selected Text Does not Stay Selected

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Could this just be a problem with the mouse? What happenes if you select
your text using the keyboard instead? ie hold shift and use the arrow keys
to select text?

Jim

"Cathy" <cmcmahon@co.dutchess.ny.us> wrote in message
news:u3GMBPYJFHA.1476@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone else experienced this problem:
>
> when selecting text with the mouse, the text does not stay selected but
> instead the selection jumps to the previous line of code and selects that
> text; or when selecting part of the text on a line the selection jumps to
> the text on the same line that was not selected.
>
> I 've had this happen in VB.Net code behind, Outlook email messages, Front
> page ansd notepad.
>
> This problem is causing me to modify or delete code that I did not select?
> Does anyone know of this problem and if there is a fix for it?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

That's not really what I asked ;-)

"Cathy" <cmcmahon@co.dutchess.ny.us> wrote in message
news:utyIVykJFHA.3420@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> I changed the mouse and still have the same problem.
>
>
> "Jim Robin" <jarsek2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uH67uXYJFHA.2628@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Could this just be a problem with the mouse? What happenes if you
select
> > your text using the keyboard instead? ie hold shift and use the arrow
keys
> > to select text?
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > "Cathy" <cmcmahon@co.dutchess.ny.us> wrote in message
> > news:u3GMBPYJFHA.1476@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Has anyone else experienced this problem:
> >>
> >> when selecting text with the mouse, the text does not stay selected but
> >> instead the selection jumps to the previous line of code and selects
that
> >> text; or when selecting part of the text on a line the selection jumps
to
> >> the text on the same line that was not selected.
> >>
> >> I 've had this happen in VB.Net code behind, Outlook email messages,
> >> Front
> >> page ansd notepad.
> >>
> >> This problem is causing me to modify or delete code that I did not
> >> select?
> >> Does anyone know of this problem and if there is a fix for it?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>