It’s probably because I never learned to play first-person shooters, but I have a devil of a time in Word selecting the element I want out of a page full of drawing shapes. Trying to select a text box, I click on what I think is that one-pixel box border, and end up selecting the canvas behind it, or a nearby rectangle, or nothing at all. Have you experienced this frustration? I’ve even resorted to “Send to Back” to get something out of my way so that I can select the thing I want.

I stumbled onto the solution. To explain it, I have made a video demo of MS Word’s Selection Pane feature. Read the rest of this entry »