It is now 2 years after that bug has been reported and the issue still persists! I am editing a larger important document and it drives me crazy not to be able to select text properly. How can a bug affecting the most basic user handling still not be fixed?! Selecting text in the center of the screen is really not a satisfactory fix as the scroll behaviour is quite sensitive even there.
Please finally fix this, seriously Microsoft we are paying for your products, this is really not too much to ask.