double-click word selection skips the first word.. sometimes

[appaulmac]

I have a habit of double-clicking a word (to select it all) but holding the mouse button down and dragging over subsequent words to select a few of them (let's say I want to italicize).

Double-clicking the word then dragging ensures I don't miss a letter or only get part of the word in a selection.

BUG:

If I double-click then drag to the right, then down to the next line, everything is fine.

BUT

If I double-click then drag to the left, then down to the next line, the first word becomes un-highlighted.

 

I've attached a short video to show what happens. The word to watch is 'mark' which is what I start each selection with

[Jeremy Bohn]

Yikes, that would be annoying. I use that trick often as well.

Side note: I'm also used to triple-clicking to select a whole paragraph, which also works in Publisher. But I've had to untrain myself from triple-click-drag and moving the cursor up or down to select whole batches of paragraphs. This is because Publisher moves the paragraph text instead of adding to the selection. I wish there was a way to disable that so it matches the behaviour od the double-click-drag.

[garrettm30]

I'm glad you have reported this. I have observed it before, but I couldn't report it at the time and I have forgotten about it since.

[Jon P]

Thanks, we've logged this

[Patrick Connor]

We have made fixes/improvements to this area (Double-click word selection sometimes omits the original word) of the program in the latest release.

The fixes and how to update are described in these forum posts.

• Affinity Publisher 1.8.4 for Windows         ( Microsoft Store and Affinity Store )
• Affinity Publisher 1.8.4 for macOS            ( Mac App Store and Affinity Store )

We would appreciate you checking that this issue has now been resolved for you.

[garrettm30]

I'm not the original poster, but as one of the fellow participants in this thread, for my part I can confirm that this issue is fixed in 1.8.4 and in the last recent beta.