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Free text selection in Microsoft Word
Authored by: mustang_dvs on Thu, Aug 17 2006 at 11:59AM PDT

You do realize that you can turn off word-by-word selection in the preferences, don't you?

Preferences > • Edit > Editing Options > [] When selecting, automatically select entire word

This has been an option since Microsoft instituted default "word-by-word" selection, in Word 98 IIRC.