Rephrased - Problem Highlighting Text In A Word Doc.

[Henry1865]

Best to start again.

eg. I want to delete a sentence from a Word doc but I cannot always highlight the text. Holding down L click on the mouse and swiping was never a problem in the past. Sometimes only a word or a few words get highlighted, sometimes none at all.

[jno]

what happens if you put your cursor in the middle of the sentence and click once, twice, or three times?

[Henry1865]

If in between two words, it highlights the word to the right. If on a word - only that word. But it is very fickle and somtimes highlights nothing.  I have tried another mouse.

[jno]

I've just clicked three times, quickly, one my one-sentence previous answer and it highlighted the whole sentence. Sorry, I don't know of Word works the same way, but Open Office (which is pretty much a clone) does.

[TheChair]

Maybe it's time to get a new mouse 

[youngmafbog]

If your mouse isnt doing it try using the Keyboard.  Place the curser where you want to stat, press SHIFT and then us the arrow keys.