Re: can't delete text using backspace button after highlighting text
Charles Kenyon
Check "typing replaces selection"
Word counts the backspace key as typing, unlike the delete key.
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"jasonz" <jas...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>i am using microsoft word, and when i highlight a particular text, i hit
>the
> backspace button and nothing happens.
>
> the only way i can delete text is to go to the word and point the arrow to
> the end of the word and delete it that way.
>
> i have never had problems with this before, but i would like to be able to
> highlight the entire word, and then just hit the backspace button to
> delete
> it.
>
> any suggestions or ideas would be much appreciated
jem01354
isn't a tick in 'Typing replaces selection' (first option in the list).
Click on it (to put the tick back in), then click OK. That should cure it
for you.
garfield-n-odie
replaces selection" box | OK.
Suzanne S. Barnhill
considered "typing.")
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