I have a pretty annoying problem with Outlook 2007 SP1. When I write
some text and directly tries to select the text I've written with the
shift and arrow key it will not select the text. I can easily
reproduce the error by doing the following steps:

1. Open a new mail
2. Tab down to the text area
3. Write "hello"
4. Hit Shift+Left Arrow
The expected result would be to select the "o" in the written text,
but the actual result is that the letter is not selected. It is the
same problem with Ctrl+Shift+Left or Shift+Home.

I run it on Windows Vista x64 SP1. When I try the same thing in
notepad or word it will not appear. It will neither appear on my
colleague's Windows Vista x86 machine. I've tried to change format
between "Plain text", "Html" and "Rich text", but it is the same
problem.

'It will not appear'... the highlighting or the problem?

If the highlighting does not appear, then it doesn't sound like an Outlook
issue and you'd be best posting to one of the Vista newsgroups.

If the problem does not appear, then I would first try running Outlook in
Safe mode (WinKey-R, outlook /safe) and see if the problem still happens.

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-f.h.