Selecting text in MS Works

tarnok

Shit like this makes me want to tear my hair out and is the reason I hate MS products as a general rule. Here's the scenario: I have a document in MS Works and I want to delete a bit from the end of a sentence. Obviously the fast way to do this would be to highlight from the end of the last word I want to keep up to the period and hit delete. Only Works won't let me do this with the mouse. No matter what I do it will not let me get the space after the last word I want to keep. If I try to highlight it Works highlights the entire word before it. I can do it will the keyboard, but the entire purpose here is to save keystrokes. Can someone tell me if there's any way to turn off this "feature?"

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Why the fuck would anyone make a "feature" like this anyway? Why can't you just assume that I know what fucking characters I want to highlight and let me fucking pick them? What purpose could possibly be served by this bullshit? ARGH!
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Saddler

Can you open the document in something other than Works, like OpenOffice or AbiWord? Not really an answer, but it's all I've got.