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Backspace highlights and deletes chunks of text
This has slowly been driving me nuts: I'm typing up an essay, and if I use
the backspace key to delete something I've just typed Word tries to be helpful by highlighting a few words on the first press, and deleting it all on the second. This means that if I quickly try to backspace across two letters I can actually end up deleting half a sentence instead. Is there any way to turn this "feature" off? I've poked through the menus but didn't have any luck. |
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Backspace highlights and deletes chunks of text
If you're using a wireless keyboard, try replacing the batteries
in it. Dave the Duck wrote: This has slowly been driving me nuts: I'm typing up an essay, and if I use the backspace key to delete something I've just typed Word tries to be helpful by highlighting a few words on the first press, and deleting it all on the second. This means that if I quickly try to backspace across two letters I can actually end up deleting half a sentence instead. Is there any way to turn this "feature" off? I've poked through the menus but didn't have any luck. |
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Backspace highlights and deletes chunks of text
"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:
If you're using a wireless keyboard, try replacing the batteries in it. Nope, it's a wired keyboard. The keyboard seems to work perfectly well in every other program I use too, so I don't think it's a hardware problem. |
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Ctrl key sticking?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Dave the Duck" wrote in message ... "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote: If you're using a wireless keyboard, try replacing the batteries in it. Nope, it's a wired keyboard. The keyboard seems to work perfectly well in every other program I use too, so I don't think it's a hardware problem. |
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Backspace highlights and deletes chunks of text
No, it's not that either, although thank you for telling me about that, I
didn't know control deletes full words! Unlike the control delete, the first backspace in this problem highlights a word or a few words as if you'd highlighted them with the mouse, and it's the second one that deletes it. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Ctrl key sticking? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org |
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Backspace highlights and deletes chunks of text
Perhaps you have EXT (Extend Selection) enabled? The shortcut key for this
is F8. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Dave the Duck" wrote in message ... No, it's not that either, although thank you for telling me about that, I didn't know control deletes full words! Unlike the control delete, the first backspace in this problem highlights a word or a few words as if you'd highlighted them with the mouse, and it's the second one that deletes it. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Ctrl key sticking? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org |
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