Right Click in MS Word

[Harsh Gupta]

Whenever I right click with CTRL pressed, in any Word file, it displays a messagebox saying "Make a Selection First.". And if I select some text and then right click with CTRL pressed, it says "This is not a valid selection."

What is it meant for??

[nmadd]

Don't know what that is supposed to do.
It's odd. I control right-clicked on a whole ton of stuff (tables, pictures, hyperlinks, Excel sheets, etc. etc.) and it always does just as you say. I wonder what a "valid selection" is and what Ctrl-RightClick will actually do?

[RobDog888]

There is no Right click function associated with the Ctl key. Its probably some context menu item getting fired but is loosing the selection due to the Ctl keypress.

[Hack]

There is no Right click function associated with the Ctl key. Its probably some context menu item getting fired but is loosing the selection due to the Ctl keypress.

I was kind of hoping you might see this Mr. Office Guru Sir because I tested out what Harsh posted and got the same thing and was also a bit curious.

This kind of makes sense, but it would seem that something might have slipped through the Word Acceptance Testing process.

[RobDog888]

Probably.

You know how you make a selection and right click to open the context menu for actions like copy or cut? Its probably killing the context menu and executing one of its items without properly passing the selection that was made.

The first item in the CM is probably what is being fired. This is the Cut menu item. So without the selection being properly passed it is puking back at you.

Solution: Dont press the Ctl key and Right-Click at the same time.

[Harsh Gupta]

OK, I tried something and something happened!!

Select something, and then right click while pressing CTRL to some other location of the document. The selected text will move to that position.

Don't know if that's what it's meant for!!!

[Hack]

If I right click and hit CTRL at the SAME time, I get a popupmenu with:

Move Here
Copy Here
Link Here
Create Hyperlink Here

menu selections. However, nothing happens when I click any of them even though I do have text selected.

[RobDog888]

OK, I tried something and something happened!!

Select something, and then right click while pressing CTRL to some other location of the document. The selected text will move to that position.

Don't know if that's what it's meant for!!!

Its probably some kind of move shortcut which is, ehh, kind of pointless IMO.

[nmadd]

If I right click and hit CTRL at the SAME time, I get a popupmenu with:

Move Here
Copy Here
Link Here
Create Hyperlink Here

menu selections. However, nothing happens when I click any of them even though I do have text selected.

I don't seem to get any of those options. Well, anyway, it's nice to find out what it does...even though I'll probably never use it.

[Hack]

Did you right click and hit CTRL at the SAME time?

[nmadd]

Well, I do get Move Here, Copy Here, Link Here, Cancel but that is when dragging a selection with the right button down - no Ctrl needed. Is this a different menu?

[Hack]

Beats the heck out of me. I didn't know any of this stuff existing until Harsh created this thread.

[nmadd]

Beats the heck out of me. I didn't know any of this stuff existing until Harsh created this thread.

Ditto.
Word doesn't get opened too often on my computer.