u/Bitter-Break-6504

Colin, the man she thought she just murdered, stood there grinning as she whirled back to open the car boot to, revealing all of her friends blowing party poppers and singing happy birthday as they had planned the surprise party for her!

It drives me mad. I edit and review a lot of wordy text and constantly find that I really struggle to highlight text, as in simply clicking and selecting text precisely. It always assumes you want the whole word after starting on the second letter, decides to include the punctuation after you clicked beside it, decides to highlight ine extra character to the left for absolutely no reason etc. Is there a way to turn that off so that if I select text, then the text I selected... is the only text selected? I really don't know how to articulate this using google

Thanks!