As a linguist I often have to switch back and forth between Mac and Windows environments. I find that for the sake of rapidly editing text for several hours a day, having the advantage to chose between 3 types of selection on the Mac makes my workflow faster.
However, when working on the PC environment (Windows 7), I find that I spend (or rather waste) a lot of time selecting "by hand" (meaning dragging from the first letter to the last) whole paragraphs (or whole sentences inside paragraphs).
What I am trying to do is go from this:
To this:
Note: The triple-click isn't a "select all" action, it only selects a paragraph defined by a dot or a line break.
Note: This would ideally be a system setting to allow for many programs within the Windows environment to function this way. The programs I use are somewhat limited and there are no ways to just use another one.