My thanks to Anne Troy and garfield-n-odie for their help. Had I added that
the "delete" key worked a week or so earlier they would, no doubt, have
advised the simple solution immediately...use Windows XP "restore".

"RT2" wrote:

Suddenly, when working in Word, I am unable to delete highlighted words,
sentences, etc. by hitting the "delete" key. Note, "help" and "navigation"
keys for Word Perfect are not checked.