Selecting left or right channel?

Back in the day with earlier Audition versions, you could very easily select just the left or right channel by simply holding the left mouse button on the edge of the channel and selecting the area needed. Is there a way of enabling this feature in CS6? (Using edit->enable channels is too time consuming.)

It still does in CS6 and CC. Go to Preferences/General and enable "Allow Context-sensitive Channel Editing". It normally seems to on by default. Alternatively you have the L and R selection boxes on the right of the channel waveforms.

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There's nothing wrong with your set-up!
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In garage band you have a mono input that showing a stereo channel, that's what what I have explain above. In Logic it's a blody waste of HD space (not to say wrong) as you recording a mono file to stereo.
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Eric,
Yes, I intended to include an image. Sorry. Here it is.
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