"Tools", "Option", "General" TAB. Uncheck the two WordPerfect options.

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"sunshine" wrote in message
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In Word, when I highlight some text and press the delete key it does not
automatically delete the highlighted block. Instead, I'm prompted in the
lower left corner to "Delete block (yes, no)". How do I stop the prompt
and
have it automatically delete?