Luckily this is a setting that you can customize, so you can follow our steps in the guide below to change your Word 2013 settings to stop automatically selecting entire words.
Disable Complete Word Selection in Word 2013
The steps in this guide will change the settings in Microsoft Word 2013 so that the application stops automatically selecting an entire word if another complete word is already selected. Once you follow the steps below, then you will be able to create selections on a per-character basis, which allows for a lot more precision when you need to make changes in your document. it can be a little slower when you need to make large formatting changes or deletions, but it can really minimize frustration if you only need to select certain characters in a word.
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