Glad to be of service. About two or three thousand years ago, WordPerfect
for DOS actually used to prompt like that when you wanted to delete a block
of text. I'm guessing that a frustrated archeology major at Microsoft
thought that it might be nice to dig up and preserve that artifact in some
way. So, when we say "WordPerfect" help/keystrokes in Word, we're talking
ancient history. WordPerfect itself hasn't behaved that way in quite a long
time. And, just for fun, sometimes those options seem to get turned on all
by themselves, with no help from the user. Mercifully, the WordPerfect
options no longer exist in Word 2007... something to look forward to. ;-)
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Author of the Word 2007 Bible
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"ncmacasl" wrote in message
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Thanks. that is exactly the problem!
"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:
If you're using Word 2003 or earlier, it's due to the WordPerfect
options.
Choose Tools Options General, and remove the checks next to the
WordPerfect options.
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Author of the Word 2007 Bible
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"ncmacasl" wrote in message
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Now, when I select text, then press delete, it asks to confirm the
delete
in
the status bar. Why is it doing this and how can i stop it??