Extreme sensitivity to mouse-release point (overshoot) when performing selection with mouse?
Morning all, I'm not sure if this behavior is controlled by Mac OS or by the app in question, but the place that it causes a problem for me is in MS Outlook for Business (Office 365).
Basically I have to perform searches in Outlook constantly. I'm not aware of a way to use the keyboard to shift focus to that specific field (other than repeatedly pressing TAB, but that seems to be a large, inconsistent number of keypresses required, so I'd have to be monitoring the effect after every keypress, thus eliminating any efficiency gains).
Thus I have to use the mouse. The mouse pointer is never near the search field so I drag it over in one rapid motion. The first task that needs to be accomplished is deleting the previous search term. This requires the search term to be selected. The quickest/easiest way to do this should be by selecting it with the mouse. The problem is that Office then ignores the action unless the mouse button is also released within a tighly confined area immediately surrounding the search box. A pixel too far, and everything is deselected.
Why this occurs is a mystery to me, as there is no other OS action that could be performed by releasing the mouse button when the pointer is in a different location. The net result is that this simple task has to be performed in a slow and cumbersome fashion, I literally have to methodically select the word with a gaming-mouse level of precision. The best alternatives seems to be to click once in the search field to switch focus to it, then Select All, then Delete/Backspace, or to move the mouse pointer with a relatively high precision to the word itself and then double-click. But these, too, are very cumbersome.
Just wondering if this mouse behavior can be adjusted or if there is perhaps some quicker way of doing this that I am missing?
