selecting word includes space: office annoyance or feature?

[colore]

hello

when I double click a word in Office 2003, it includes the space that follows

is there an option to make it stop doing this?

thanks

[spacesurfer]

have you tried pasting it? word is smart enough to ignore that space anyway. when pasting it, it's smart enough to include just one space before and one space after. it doesn't matter if you paste that word without leaving a space before or after it, it still corrects your paste job.

same goes for sentences or paragraphs.

try it.

[colore]

I don't know if ms office is smart enough (cough), what I now is that I need to disable this thing, I am a fan of WYSIWYG, I want to select what my mouse selects

what is extremely annoying is that office selects the "previous" word when I select a space and a word (\s\w for the regex guys)