I've not had any experience with the Delete key not deleting (forward). The
two usual problems are with block deletes (which you say work) and Backspace
not deleting (backward), both of which are discussed in the referenced
article.

Wrt (3), how are you selecting the text? With the mouse or keyboard? I'm
wondering if the selection stops (or at least hesitates) at a section break,
wrapped graphic, or the like.

Wrt (5), do the "random linefeeds" occur in pasted text? (If so, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm). And are they really
manual line breaks (with nonprinting characters displayed, you'll see a bent
arrow)? Or are they just places where a line breaks sooner than expected. Or
by "linefeeds" do you mean extra, unexpected spaces between lines of text
(such as might be caused by Space Before/After)?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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Thank you so much Suzanne. It seems most technical newsgroups have at
least one
person who takes time to expertly guide, and you are the one (or one of
them)
here!

Those references came up straight away on my old netscape (which I much
prefer)
and they are very clear and well-written.

I've now solved the little black square. I'll try the delete problem, but
at
this stage would say that if I select I usually can delete; the problem is
pressing delete and trying to delete from the cursor without the select.
Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

Thanks too for the reassurance about long documents.

Now, over to the others for the the remaining problems!

Aalaan


Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:

Hmm. For (1), see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm.
For (4), possibly
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...DeleteText.htm
would be helpful.

As for (6), one of my larger documents is 200,000 words--no problem at
all.
Another is 60,000 with hundreds of linked graphics, hundreds of tables,
and
thousands of index entries. The only built-in limit for Word document
size
is the 32 MB limit on text only (not counting graphics). The practical
limits depend on your computer; in this case, amount of RAM is more
important than either processor speed or HD size.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so
all may benefit.

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...
Hi all you experts!

I'm using Word 2000 with no updates. I have a handful of very
irritating problems and would be gald of your expert answers.

1 What are the little black squares in several places in (someone
else's) documents? I can't reach them with the cursor. How can I get
rid of them?

2 Every now and then the cursor disappears completely and I'm
flying
blind. OK in other places in the document. What's happening?

3 Sometimes when I block large chunks of text the block reaches a
stop and I have to deal with that and then select a new block.

4 Sometimes the delete key will not delete and I have to block mark
and then delete.

5 Sometimes random linefeeds seem to occur and break up continuous
text.

6 I need to work with 50,000-word and up documents. Is thi size a
particular danger?

Your replies to any of these will save my sanity! Thanks

aalaan