I have designed a userform and several users have asked whether there is a
better way of highlighting and copying from form fields when in Protected
mode.  In the default Word behaviour, any attempt to highlight using the left
mouse key results in the whole of the current paragraph, in the direction the
mouse is moved, being highlighted.  The way that I am instructing users to
address this at the moment is to use the Shift-arrow keys to do the
highlighting.  However, many seem to feel that keyboard short-cuts are clunky
and that mouse should be able to do it all!  A valid difficulty is that even
when the Shift-arrow method of highlighting is used, if the highlighted
section is moved with one of the arrow keys to the beginning or end of the
paragraph, the whole paragraph becomes highlighted.  This is regardless of
where the starting point of the highlighting might be.

I am wondering whether the behaviour I have described above might be changed
through the use of a macro, so that mouse highlighting can be done in the
normal way.

My interest in this for Word 2003 and 2000 is because my organization has
not yet moved from Word 2003 as its standard, with some users also still
needing to use Word 2000.

Thank you
GordonM