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How do I get Word to delete text using the backspace key?
"Mommy-Lisa" wrote: I used to be able to select text tehn either hit teh backspace key or just type new text and delete teh selected part, now Word won't do that and I'm not sure how I got it that way. HGow do I reset it so that it will work the way it used to? |
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How do I get Word to delete text using the backspace key?
Bob, did you ever get a response to your question? Mine just started acting
up today. It worked fine last week. "Bob B" wrote: "Mommy-Lisa" wrote: I used to be able to select text tehn either hit teh backspace key or just type new text and delete teh selected part, now Word won't do that and I'm not sure how I got it that way. HGow do I reset it so that it will work the way it used to? |
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How do I get Word to delete text using the backspace key?
Hi the Insert key one time.
-- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "LGH" wrote in message ... Bob, did you ever get a response to your question? Mine just started acting up today. It worked fine last week. "Bob B" wrote: "Mommy-Lisa" wrote: I used to be able to select text tehn either hit teh backspace key or just type new text and delete teh selected part, now Word won't do that and I'm not sure how I got it that way. HGow do I reset it so that it will work the way it used to? |
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How do I get Word to delete text using the backspace key?
The answer is farther up in this thread: On the Edit tab of Tools | Options,
check the box for "Typing replaces selection." Backspacing is considered "typing." -- 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. "LGH" wrote in message ... Bob, did you ever get a response to your question? Mine just started acting up today. It worked fine last week. "Bob B" wrote: "Mommy-Lisa" wrote: I used to be able to select text tehn either hit teh backspace key or just type new text and delete teh selected part, now Word won't do that and I'm not sure how I got it that way. HGow do I reset it so that it will work the way it used to? |
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How do I get Word to delete text using the backspace key?
Hi Suzanne. I tried the steps outlined above, but they didn't pertain to me
because Word is working perfectly except for this one area. I did find the solution though. Go to Tools, select Options, select the General Tab. I unchecked the "Help for Word Perfect Users" box, and selected the "Automatically create canvas when inserting autoshapes" box. In addition to being unable to select and delete text, I was having a problem deleting images. The above steps took care of both problems. Thanks! LGH "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The answer is farther up in this thread: On the Edit tab of Tools | Options, check the box for "Typing replaces selection." Backspacing is considered "typing." -- 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. "LGH" wrote in message ... Bob, did you ever get a response to your question? Mine just started acting up today. It worked fine last week. "Bob B" wrote: "Mommy-Lisa" wrote: I used to be able to select text tehn either hit teh backspace key or just type new text and delete teh selected part, now Word won't do that and I'm not sure how I got it that way. HGow do I reset it so that it will work the way it used to? |
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How do I get Word to delete text using the backspace key?
Well, your question was *not* identical to the original post and should have
been posted in a new thread. These are two separate issues: being unable to delete text using the Delete key (http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...DeleteText.htm) and being unable to delete using Backspace or to replace text by typing over it. If you had posted a new question instead of a "me, too," you would have gotten the correct answer. -- 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. "LGH" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne. I tried the steps outlined above, but they didn't pertain to me because Word is working perfectly except for this one area. I did find the solution though. Go to Tools, select Options, select the General Tab. I unchecked the "Help for Word Perfect Users" box, and selected the "Automatically create canvas when inserting autoshapes" box. In addition to being unable to select and delete text, I was having a problem deleting images. The above steps took care of both problems. Thanks! LGH "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The answer is farther up in this thread: On the Edit tab of Tools | Options, check the box for "Typing replaces selection." Backspacing is considered "typing." -- 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. "LGH" wrote in message ... Bob, did you ever get a response to your question? Mine just started acting up today. It worked fine last week. "Bob B" wrote: "Mommy-Lisa" wrote: I used to be able to select text tehn either hit teh backspace key or just type new text and delete teh selected part, now Word won't do that and I'm not sure how I got it that way. HGow do I reset it so that it will work the way it used to? |
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