MS Word and text selection

[acroyear]

Is there any way to get Word (and Outlook) to stop over-selecting for me?  E.g., in the value

This 'is' a test.

I try to just select "is" to bold it and it decides to auto-grab the final ' as well.  I *really* don't want that.  It does it for final punctuation and the space after a string, and sometimes it will over-grab an entire word when I only want part of it done.  I'm very precise about what I want selected, and this nanny-crap is damned annoying.

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[3fingeredsalute.livejournal.com]

Using Office 2007 on a Windoze Vista machine, I also see the "smart select" grab the closing single-quote and space thereafter if I double-click the word, but if I click the space between the word and the quote (either right to left or vice versa), it gets the proper letters I have specified.

I don't know if that method is any easier or preferable to the click and shift-arrow the text, but I thought I would throw in my 2 pesos just in case it was useful?