Cursor visual selection

Specifies if Block or Continuous selection shall be used. Block selection parodies the selection behavior within the Windows explorer when files in a folder. You draw a rectangle with the curson, and everything inside the rectangle is selected.

Supported on: At least Windows 7

Cursor visual selection


  1. Block
    Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
    Registry Pathsoftware\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\word\options
    Value Namecursorselection
    Value TypeREG_DWORD
    Value0
  2. Continuous
    Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
    Registry Pathsoftware\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\word\options
    Value Namecursorselection
    Value TypeREG_DWORD
    Value1


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