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How do I get rid of the confirm qn when deleting text
In my recently installed copy of Word 2003, whenever I select text and hit
the 'delete' key, I get an annoying confirmation question "Delete Text Y / N" and have to press yes. I can't find any way to remove this annoyance in the Options. It's probably something simple I am missing, but none of the knowledge base articles have any reference to 'Delete Text confirmations'. Can anyone help? |
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How do I get rid of the confirm qn when deleting text
Tools Options General tab
Uncheck the two WordPerfect options. -- Enjoy, Tony "Waverley" wrote in message ... In my recently installed copy of Word 2003, whenever I select text and hit the 'delete' key, I get an annoying confirmation question "Delete Text Y / N" and have to press yes. I can't find any way to remove this annoyance in the Options. It's probably something simple I am missing, but none of the knowledge base articles have any reference to 'Delete Text confirmations'. Can anyone help? |
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How do I get rid of the confirm qn when deleting text
In Word, click on Tools | Options | General | uncheck the two
boxes for WordPerfect help and navigation | OK. Waverley wrote: In my recently installed copy of Word 2003, whenever I select text and hit the 'delete' key, I get an annoying confirmation question "Delete Text Y / N" and have to press yes. I can't find any way to remove this annoyance in the Options. It's probably something simple I am missing, but none of the knowledge base articles have any reference to 'Delete Text confirmations'. Can anyone help? |
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How do I get rid of the confirm qn when deleting text
I found the answer. It's tied in with the WordPerfect help feature. This
needs to be turned off in ToolsOptionsGeneral before the deletion confirmation disappears. It seems a bit stupid though. I have been using WordPerfect in different versions for over 20 years and have never had to bother about any confirmation like this! "Waverley" wrote: In my recently installed copy of Word 2003, whenever I select text and hit the 'delete' key, I get an annoying confirmation question "Delete Text Y / N" and have to press yes. I can't find any way to remove this annoyance in the Options. It's probably something simple I am missing, but none of the knowledge base articles have any reference to 'Delete Text confirmations'. Can anyone help? |
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Thanks.
It seems a bit stupid though. I have been using WordPerfect in different versions for over 20 years and have never had to bother about any confirmation like this! "Tony Jollans" wrote: Tools Options General tab Uncheck the two WordPerfect options. -- Enjoy, Tony "Waverley" wrote in message ... In my recently installed copy of Word 2003, whenever I select text and hit the 'delete' key, I get an annoying confirmation question "Delete Text Y / N" and have to press yes. I can't find any way to remove this annoyance in the Options. It's probably something simple I am missing, but none of the knowledge base articles have any reference to 'Delete Text confirmations'. Can anyone help? |
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Thanks.
It seems a bit stupid though. I have been using WordPerfect in different versions for over 20 years and have never had to bother about any confirmation like this! "garfield-n-odie" wrote: In Word, click on Tools | Options | General | uncheck the two boxes for WordPerfect help and navigation | OK. Waverley wrote: In my recently installed copy of Word 2003, whenever I select text and hit the 'delete' key, I get an annoying confirmation question "Delete Text Y / N" and have to press yes. I can't find any way to remove this annoyance in the Options. It's probably something simple I am missing, but none of the knowledge base articles have any reference to 'Delete Text confirmations'. Can anyone help? |
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ISTR this from WP 6.0 DOS, which is about the level these options seem to be
aimed. -- 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. "Waverley" wrote in message ... Thanks. It seems a bit stupid though. I have been using WordPerfect in different versions for over 20 years and have never had to bother about any confirmation like this! "garfield-n-odie" wrote: In Word, click on Tools | Options | General | uncheck the two boxes for WordPerfect help and navigation | OK. Waverley wrote: In my recently installed copy of Word 2003, whenever I select text and hit the 'delete' key, I get an annoying confirmation question "Delete Text Y / N" and have to press yes. I can't find any way to remove this annoyance in the Options. It's probably something simple I am missing, but none of the knowledge base articles have any reference to 'Delete Text confirmations'. Can anyone help? |
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It was certainly there in WP 4.2 and 5.1. As I recall, early versions didn't
have much in the way of undo. The problem is the way Word records macros involving dialog boxes is to capture all of the data on a dialog box, not just the things that are changed when recording the macro. So, if someone recording a macro has these settings in place and doesn't edit the macro to trim out the excess, those settings are replicated when the macro is run. Unfortunately, some commercial software has such macros. Also, home-built macro solutions are likely to have such problems. This means that we Word users are stuck with a WP legacy that WP gave up long ago. If the next version of Word is not going to use vba, then I suspect that this may finally disappear, but I don't know this. I just know that the interface is changing in ways that are likely to make existing vba programs that deal with it problematic. (And that "knowledge" may just reflect my ignorance, see below.) -- 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! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Waverley" wrote in message ... Thanks. It seems a bit stupid though. I have been using WordPerfect in different versions for over 20 years and have never had to bother about any confirmation like this! "garfield-n-odie" wrote: In Word, click on Tools | Options | General | uncheck the two boxes for WordPerfect help and navigation | OK. Waverley wrote: In my recently installed copy of Word 2003, whenever I select text and hit the 'delete' key, I get an annoying confirmation question "Delete Text Y / N" and have to press yes. I can't find any way to remove this annoyance in the Options. It's probably something simple I am missing, but none of the knowledge base articles have any reference to 'Delete Text confirmations'. Can anyone help? |
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Yes, discussion with the developers about why these antiquated and dangerous
options (Fast Saves is another) were left in was that it was better to leave them in so that users at least would have some control. If a macro such as you mention changed the setting and there was no way for a user to change it back (short of editing the Registry), that would be much less desirable. -- 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. "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... It was certainly there in WP 4.2 and 5.1. As I recall, early versions didn't have much in the way of undo. The problem is the way Word records macros involving dialog boxes is to capture all of the data on a dialog box, not just the things that are changed when recording the macro. So, if someone recording a macro has these settings in place and doesn't edit the macro to trim out the excess, those settings are replicated when the macro is run. Unfortunately, some commercial software has such macros. Also, home-built macro solutions are likely to have such problems. This means that we Word users are stuck with a WP legacy that WP gave up long ago. If the next version of Word is not going to use vba, then I suspect that this may finally disappear, but I don't know this. I just know that the interface is changing in ways that are likely to make existing vba programs that deal with it problematic. (And that "knowledge" may just reflect my ignorance, see below.) -- 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! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Waverley" wrote in message ... Thanks. It seems a bit stupid though. I have been using WordPerfect in different versions for over 20 years and have never had to bother about any confirmation like this! "garfield-n-odie" wrote: In Word, click on Tools | Options | General | uncheck the two boxes for WordPerfect help and navigation | OK. Waverley wrote: In my recently installed copy of Word 2003, whenever I select text and hit the 'delete' key, I get an annoying confirmation question "Delete Text Y / N" and have to press yes. I can't find any way to remove this annoyance in the Options. It's probably something simple I am missing, but none of the knowledge base articles have any reference to 'Delete Text confirmations'. Can anyone help? |
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That is a poor excuse.
They can, and do, leave settings available via VBA but remove them from the UI. Sometimes by accident (some of the Track Changes options in Word 2002 for example), sometimes seemingly by design (can't think of a Word example immediately but the Lotus Help option in Excel is now only available in VBA; it doesn't have any effect but old code whih included it still runs). If nobody wants these features and their presence causes problems, they should be removed. -- Enjoy, Tony "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Yes, discussion with the developers about why these antiquated and dangerous options (Fast Saves is another) were left in was that it was better to leave them in so that users at least would have some control. If a macro such as you mention changed the setting and there was no way for a user to change it back (short of editing the Registry), that would be much less desirable. -- 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. "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... It was certainly there in WP 4.2 and 5.1. As I recall, early versions didn't have much in the way of undo. The problem is the way Word records macros involving dialog boxes is to capture all of the data on a dialog box, not just the things that are changed when recording the macro. So, if someone recording a macro has these settings in place and doesn't edit the macro to trim out the excess, those settings are replicated when the macro is run. Unfortunately, some commercial software has such macros. Also, home-built macro solutions are likely to have such problems. This means that we Word users are stuck with a WP legacy that WP gave up long ago. If the next version of Word is not going to use vba, then I suspect that this may finally disappear, but I don't know this. I just know that the interface is changing in ways that are likely to make existing vba programs that deal with it problematic. (And that "knowledge" may just reflect my ignorance, see below.) -- 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! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Waverley" wrote in message ... Thanks. It seems a bit stupid though. I have been using WordPerfect in different versions for over 20 years and have never had to bother about any confirmation like this! "garfield-n-odie" wrote: In Word, click on Tools | Options | General | uncheck the two boxes for WordPerfect help and navigation | OK. Waverley wrote: In my recently installed copy of Word 2003, whenever I select text and hit the 'delete' key, I get an annoying confirmation question "Delete Text Y / N" and have to press yes. I can't find any way to remove this annoyance in the Options. It's probably something simple I am missing, but none of the knowledge base articles have any reference to 'Delete Text confirmations'. Can anyone help? |
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But the ordinary user doesn't know how to use VBA to change settings and
hence is at the mercy of any poorly written add-in that changes them for him. -- 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. "Tony Jollans" My Forename at My Surname dot com wrote in message ... That is a poor excuse. They can, and do, leave settings available via VBA but remove them from the UI. Sometimes by accident (some of the Track Changes options in Word 2002 for example), sometimes seemingly by design (can't think of a Word example immediately but the Lotus Help option in Excel is now only available in VBA; it doesn't have any effect but old code whih included it still runs). If nobody wants these features and their presence causes problems, they should be removed. -- Enjoy, Tony "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Yes, discussion with the developers about why these antiquated and dangerous options (Fast Saves is another) were left in was that it was better to leave them in so that users at least would have some control. If a macro such as you mention changed the setting and there was no way for a user to change it back (short of editing the Registry), that would be much less desirable. -- 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. "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... It was certainly there in WP 4.2 and 5.1. As I recall, early versions didn't have much in the way of undo. The problem is the way Word records macros involving dialog boxes is to capture all of the data on a dialog box, not just the things that are changed when recording the macro. So, if someone recording a macro has these settings in place and doesn't edit the macro to trim out the excess, those settings are replicated when the macro is run. Unfortunately, some commercial software has such macros. Also, home-built macro solutions are likely to have such problems. This means that we Word users are stuck with a WP legacy that WP gave up long ago. If the next version of Word is not going to use vba, then I suspect that this may finally disappear, but I don't know this. I just know that the interface is changing in ways that are likely to make existing vba programs that deal with it problematic. (And that "knowledge" may just reflect my ignorance, see below.) -- 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! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Waverley" wrote in message ... Thanks. It seems a bit stupid though. I have been using WordPerfect in different versions for over 20 years and have never had to bother about any confirmation like this! "garfield-n-odie" wrote: In Word, click on Tools | Options | General | uncheck the two boxes for WordPerfect help and navigation | OK. Waverley wrote: In my recently installed copy of Word 2003, whenever I select text and hit the 'delete' key, I get an annoying confirmation question "Delete Text Y / N" and have to press yes. I can't find any way to remove this annoyance in the Options. It's probably something simple I am missing, but none of the knowledge base articles have any reference to 'Delete Text confirmations'. Can anyone help? |
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I quite agree, but my point was that you don't have to be at the mercy of
poorly written code. A way to remove the feature and allow existing VBA not to fail is to keep the keyword in VBA but make it ineffective. This is exactly what has been done with the Excel example I quoted. There used to be a transition option in Excel to allow the use of Lotus 123 Help keys and there was a corresponding VBA setting (Application.TransitionMenuKeyAction). The feature was removed from Excel 2003 (although it did have some uses - perhaps becuase it did have some uses, I don't know) but the VBA option remains. Setting the option in VBA has no effect - the Lotus option is no longer available - but code that contains it does not fail. The same could be done with the WordPerfect Options in Word. They could be removed from Word and from the UI but the VBA statements could remain valid whilst having no effect. The only losers would be those who actually wanted the feature; as it seems nobody does this wouldn't be a loss. The winners would be those who currently suffer from poorly written code and find Word behaving in a way that they don't want and don't understand. -- Enjoy, Tony "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... But the ordinary user doesn't know how to use VBA to change settings and hence is at the mercy of any poorly written add-in that changes them for him. -- 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. "Tony Jollans" My Forename at My Surname dot com wrote in message ... That is a poor excuse. They can, and do, leave settings available via VBA but remove them from the UI. Sometimes by accident (some of the Track Changes options in Word 2002 for example), sometimes seemingly by design (can't think of a Word example immediately but the Lotus Help option in Excel is now only available in VBA; it doesn't have any effect but old code whih included it still runs). If nobody wants these features and their presence causes problems, they should be removed. -- Enjoy, Tony "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Yes, discussion with the developers about why these antiquated and dangerous options (Fast Saves is another) were left in was that it was better to leave them in so that users at least would have some control. If a macro such as you mention changed the setting and there was no way for a user to change it back (short of editing the Registry), that would be much less desirable. -- 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. "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... It was certainly there in WP 4.2 and 5.1. As I recall, early versions didn't have much in the way of undo. The problem is the way Word records macros involving dialog boxes is to capture all of the data on a dialog box, not just the things that are changed when recording the macro. So, if someone recording a macro has these settings in place and doesn't edit the macro to trim out the excess, those settings are replicated when the macro is run. Unfortunately, some commercial software has such macros. Also, home-built macro solutions are likely to have such problems. This means that we Word users are stuck with a WP legacy that WP gave up long ago. If the next version of Word is not going to use vba, then I suspect that this may finally disappear, but I don't know this. I just know that the interface is changing in ways that are likely to make existing vba programs that deal with it problematic. (And that "knowledge" may just reflect my ignorance, see below.) -- 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! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Waverley" wrote in message ... Thanks. It seems a bit stupid though. I have been using WordPerfect in different versions for over 20 years and have never had to bother about any confirmation like this! "garfield-n-odie" wrote: In Word, click on Tools | Options | General | uncheck the two boxes for WordPerfect help and navigation | OK. Waverley wrote: In my recently installed copy of Word 2003, whenever I select text and hit the 'delete' key, I get an annoying confirmation question "Delete Text Y / N" and have to press yes. I can't find any way to remove this annoyance in the Options. It's probably something simple I am missing, but none of the knowledge base articles have any reference to 'Delete Text confirmations'. Can anyone help? |
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