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Delete button inserts from clipboard
I have been using Word 2000 for several years now. Suddenly one day the
delete button began to insert from the clipboard instead of deleting what was highlighted. I have tried every setting in Tools/Options/General and Edit I can see related to this. I used the Delete all the time out of habit, my computer at work functions properly so I know I'm not crazy. Please help |
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Delete button inserts from clipboard
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:18:01 -0700, webehills
wrote: I have been using Word 2000 for several years now. Suddenly one day the delete button began to insert from the clipboard instead of deleting what was highlighted. I have tried every setting in Tools/Options/General and Edit I can see related to this. I used the Delete all the time out of habit, my computer at work functions properly so I know I'm not crazy. Please help In Tools Options Edit, uncheck the box for "Use the INS key for paste" (the third one in the left column). -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:28:24 -0400, Jay Freedman
wrote: On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:18:01 -0700, webehills wrote: I have been using Word 2000 for several years now. Suddenly one day the delete button began to insert from the clipboard instead of deleting what was highlighted. I have tried every setting in Tools/Options/General and Edit I can see related to this. I used the Delete all the time out of habit, my computer at work functions properly so I know I'm not crazy. Please help In Tools Options Edit, uncheck the box for "Use the INS key for paste" (the third one in the left column). Sorry, I was "reading" what I expected, not what was there. I suspect something (not necessarily something you did) has reassigned the Delete key to the Paste function. I have no idea what that something might be, but here's how to put it back to its original function: Open the Tools Customize dialog and click the Keyboard button. In the next dialog, click Edit in the Categories list, and then click EditClear in the Commands list. Put the cursor in the "Press new shortcut key" box and press the Delete key. Click the Assign button. The "Current keys" box should now contain "Del". Click OK in both dialogs. When you exit from Word, if it asks to save changes to Normal.dot, say yes. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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I followed your instructions, opened a new doc, did a few quick tests and it
worked. However, what I noticed was when I hit the "delete" key in the "press new shortcut key" is automatically added: Del,Insert. I do not really use my insert key for paste, I use Ctrl+V. Just not sure if I should leave it, or try and delete the "Insert" portion of that. Buy hey ... thanks a million ... I am a happy camper now!! You're the best. jh "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:28:24 -0400, Jay Freedman wrote: On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:18:01 -0700, webehills wrote: I have been using Word 2000 for several years now. Suddenly one day the delete button began to insert from the clipboard instead of deleting what was highlighted. I have tried every setting in Tools/Options/General and Edit I can see related to this. I used the Delete all the time out of habit, my computer at work functions properly so I know I'm not crazy. Please help In Tools Options Edit, uncheck the box for "Use the INS key for paste" (the third one in the left column). Sorry, I was "reading" what I expected, not what was there. I suspect something (not necessarily something you did) has reassigned the Delete key to the Paste function. I have no idea what that something might be, but here's how to put it back to its original function: Open the Tools Customize dialog and click the Keyboard button. In the next dialog, click Edit in the Categories list, and then click EditClear in the Commands list. Put the cursor in the "Press new shortcut key" box and press the Delete key. Click the Assign button. The "Current keys" box should now contain "Del". Click OK in both dialogs. When you exit from Word, if it asks to save changes to Normal.dot, say yes. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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One more thing ... when I close my Word program, it does not ask to save the
"Normal" template. How do I get this to stay? Everytime I turn the computer one of have to fix it again. "webehills" wrote: I followed your instructions, opened a new doc, did a few quick tests and it worked. However, what I noticed was when I hit the "delete" key in the "press new shortcut key" is automatically added: Del,Insert. I do not really use my insert key for paste, I use Ctrl+V. Just not sure if I should leave it, or try and delete the "Insert" portion of that. Buy hey ... thanks a million ... I am a happy camper now!! You're the best. jh "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:28:24 -0400, Jay Freedman wrote: On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:18:01 -0700, webehills wrote: I have been using Word 2000 for several years now. Suddenly one day the delete button began to insert from the clipboard instead of deleting what was highlighted. I have tried every setting in Tools/Options/General and Edit I can see related to this. I used the Delete all the time out of habit, my computer at work functions properly so I know I'm not crazy. Please help In Tools Options Edit, uncheck the box for "Use the INS key for paste" (the third one in the left column). Sorry, I was "reading" what I expected, not what was there. I suspect something (not necessarily something you did) has reassigned the Delete key to the Paste function. I have no idea what that something might be, but here's how to put it back to its original function: Open the Tools Customize dialog and click the Keyboard button. In the next dialog, click Edit in the Categories list, and then click EditClear in the Commands list. Put the cursor in the "Press new shortcut key" box and press the Delete key. Click the Assign button. The "Current keys" box should now contain "Del". Click OK in both dialogs. When you exit from Word, if it asks to save changes to Normal.dot, say yes. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Word 2003 has a bad habit of randomly losing settings stored in the Word
data key in the registry. Typically these are from the items set in tools options. This particular setting is tools options save prompt to save normal template. To overcome this, force the change for each document by adding the line Options.SaveNormalPrompt = True to both an autoopen and an autonew macro in normal.dot (and manually save to ensure that it holds) - see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org webehills wrote: One more thing ... when I close my Word program, it does not ask to save the "Normal" template. How do I get this to stay? Everytime I turn the computer one of have to fix it again. "webehills" wrote: I followed your instructions, opened a new doc, did a few quick tests and it worked. However, what I noticed was when I hit the "delete" key in the "press new shortcut key" is automatically added: Del,Insert. I do not really use my insert key for paste, I use Ctrl+V. Just not sure if I should leave it, or try and delete the "Insert" portion of that. Buy hey ... thanks a million ... I am a happy camper now!! You're the best. jh "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:28:24 -0400, Jay Freedman wrote: On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:18:01 -0700, webehills wrote: I have been using Word 2000 for several years now. Suddenly one day the delete button began to insert from the clipboard instead of deleting what was highlighted. I have tried every setting in Tools/Options/General and Edit I can see related to this. I used the Delete all the time out of habit, my computer at work functions properly so I know I'm not crazy. Please help In Tools Options Edit, uncheck the box for "Use the INS key for paste" (the third one in the left column). Sorry, I was "reading" what I expected, not what was there. I suspect something (not necessarily something you did) has reassigned the Delete key to the Paste function. I have no idea what that something might be, but here's how to put it back to its original function: Open the Tools Customize dialog and click the Keyboard button. In the next dialog, click Edit in the Categories list, and then click EditClear in the Commands list. Put the cursor in the "Press new shortcut key" box and press the Delete key. Click the Assign button. The "Current keys" box should now contain "Del". Click OK in both dialogs. When you exit from Word, if it asks to save changes to Normal.dot, say yes. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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