Cursor location on first click -- insertion point

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12-14-2016, 02:45 PM

Charles Kenyon Charles Kenyon is offline

Windows 10 Cursor location on first click -- insertion point

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AFAIK, this has always been the behavior of Word and I know of no way to change it.

The first mouse click activates the Window, the second places the insertion point. You are correct that this is different in other applications. I know of no way to change it in the other applications, either.

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