In Word, how to make it so selecting doesn't also select the newline characters?

Question

If I set my cursor in the middle of the line, then hit Shift+End, Word will select the carriage return and newline character too.

What settings would I need to change in Word 2013 in order to make it stop selecting before the newline and carriage return, instead of after them?

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I know I can do shift+end+(still holding down shift)+LeftArrow. I want to not have to do that. I want a setting that makes shift+end not include the CRLF. Is there a setting for that?

Answer 1

To select text without also selecting the newline character, go to File > Options and click Advanced. Clear the "Use smart paragraph selection" setting and click OK.

Answer 2

Here is a (not smart) solution:

1. Click the "Show paragraph marks" icon in the Home menu (looks almost like a pi symbol).
2. Position the cursor at the start of the words you want to select, eg start of a line.
3. Press Shift+End
4. Keep Shift down and press Voila - You can select with Ctrl+C

Answer 3

Sorry my answer abnove was spoiled during submit because of a "less than " sign and I cannot delete it.

In fact you don't need to use "Show paragraph marks".

All you need to do is

1. position cursor
2. Press Shift + End
3. Keep Shift down and press (Left arrow)

Answer 4

It seems the most generalizable workaround for kill text through end of line is:

1. Position cursor
2. Hit enter create a new paragraph
3. Shift+end
4. Backspace.

I've been using shift+end followed by shift-left for years, but I found a case where it does not work: outline view.

As observed in the question, Office interfaces greedily grab linefeed/carriage returns, and this behavior is recapitulated when hitting shift+end in Word's outline view. However, outline view has a quirk that breaks the usual workaround: any action that selects the end-of-paragraph will concommittantly select the entire bullet/paragraph. This remains true when you've unselected "smart selection" options in the File->Options->Advanced page. Once you've selected the entire bullet/paragraph, shift+left arrow now deselects it and brings the cursor to its beginning.

The above workaround results in the desired "kill line" behavior, and it should work across Office products.

ETA: If you're not intending to delete but adding style or something, and you never use outline view, then you can replace step 4 with your something and add a step 5 which is home and backspace.