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Check "typing replaces selection"

Word counts the backspace key as typing, unlike the delete key.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"jasonz" 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