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highlight and delete text word 2002
I have windows xp, a Dell bundled with Word 2002, and cannot figure out how
to delete text in a document by merely highlighting and pressing the delete button. I don't use, nor understand most of the tools & customizations in Word, but it seems to me that highlighting and deleting should be a very basic function. I searched Google, and everything that I found indicated that all I need to do is highlight and delete, but it doesn't work that way. So, any insight would be appreciated. |
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What happens when you try?
In Tools | Options, Edit, ensure "typing replaces selection" is checked. On 9/2/05 6:47 AM, "lvee" wrote: I have windows xp, a Dell bundled with Word 2002, and cannot figure out how to delete text in a document by merely highlighting and pressing the delete button. I don't use, nor understand most of the tools & customizations in Word, but it seems to me that highlighting and deleting should be a very basic function. I searched Google, and everything that I found indicated that all I need to do is highlight and delete, but it doesn't work that way. So, any insight would be appreciated. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Hi, Daiyana, thanks for responding.
'typing replaces selection' is selected, and when I try to delete text, the text becomes underlined in a green, squiggly line, but nothing is deleted. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . What happens when you try? In Tools | Options, Edit, ensure "typing replaces selection" is checked. On 9/2/05 6:47 AM, "lvee" wrote: I have windows xp, a Dell bundled with Word 2002, and cannot figure out how to delete text in a document by merely highlighting and pressing the delete button. I don't use, nor understand most of the tools & customizations in Word, but it seems to me that highlighting and deleting should be a very basic function. I searched Google, and everything that I found indicated that all I need to do is highlight and delete, but it doesn't work that way. So, any insight would be appreciated. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Okay, I just tried using the 'Del' key, rather than the 'delete' key, which
by the way is something that I tried several times without success, but this time it worked. What is the difference between the two keys? "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . What happens when you try? In Tools | Options, Edit, ensure "typing replaces selection" is checked. On 9/2/05 6:47 AM, "lvee" wrote: I have windows xp, a Dell bundled with Word 2002, and cannot figure out how to delete text in a document by merely highlighting and pressing the delete button. I don't use, nor understand most of the tools & customizations in Word, but it seems to me that highlighting and deleting should be a very basic function. I searched Google, and everything that I found indicated that all I need to do is highlight and delete, but it doesn't work that way. So, any insight would be appreciated. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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sorry to keep adding to the post, but I noticed when I do use the del key,
which also acts as a period when text is not highlighted, is does delete all text, except it leaves a period (.) at what would be the start of the sentence. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . What happens when you try? In Tools | Options, Edit, ensure "typing replaces selection" is checked. On 9/2/05 6:47 AM, "lvee" wrote: I have windows xp, a Dell bundled with Word 2002, and cannot figure out how to delete text in a document by merely highlighting and pressing the delete button. I don't use, nor understand most of the tools & customizations in Word, but it seems to me that highlighting and deleting should be a very basic function. I searched Google, and everything that I found indicated that all I need to do is highlight and delete, but it doesn't work that way. So, any insight would be appreciated. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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The key you are referring to is a part of the numeric keypad and you have
NumLock turned on. So, it is a decimal point (period). Likewise, the Home key on that keypad is a 7. So it is typing a period and replacing your selected text with the period. -- 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://www.mvps.org/word 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. "lvee" wrote in message ... sorry to keep adding to the post, but I noticed when I do use the del key, which also acts as a period when text is not highlighted, is does delete all text, except it leaves a period (.) at what would be the start of the sentence. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . What happens when you try? In Tools | Options, Edit, ensure "typing replaces selection" is checked. On 9/2/05 6:47 AM, "lvee" wrote: I have windows xp, a Dell bundled with Word 2002, and cannot figure out how to delete text in a document by merely highlighting and pressing the delete button. I don't use, nor understand most of the tools & customizations in Word, but it seems to me that highlighting and deleting should be a very basic function. I searched Google, and everything that I found indicated that all I need to do is highlight and delete, but it doesn't work that way. So, any insight would be appreciated. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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On the General tab of Tools | Options, clear the check boxes for both items
that refer to WordPerfect. -- 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. "lvee" wrote in message ... I have windows xp, a Dell bundled with Word 2002, and cannot figure out how to delete text in a document by merely highlighting and pressing the delete button. I don't use, nor understand most of the tools & customizations in Word, but it seems to me that highlighting and deleting should be a very basic function. I searched Google, and everything that I found indicated that all I need to do is highlight and delete, but it doesn't work that way. So, any insight would be appreciated. |
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That's because you're actually replacing the text with a period ("Typing
replaces selection"). To deal with this (different) problem, on the General tab of Tools | Options, clear the check boxes for both items that refer to WordPerfect. These are two separate issues, and both Daiya and Charles jumped on the wrong solution (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...DeleteText.htm). -- 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. "lvee" wrote in message ... sorry to keep adding to the post, but I noticed when I do use the del key, which also acts as a period when text is not highlighted, is does delete all text, except it leaves a period (.) at what would be the start of the sentence. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . What happens when you try? In Tools | Options, Edit, ensure "typing replaces selection" is checked. On 9/2/05 6:47 AM, "lvee" wrote: I have windows xp, a Dell bundled with Word 2002, and cannot figure out how to delete text in a document by merely highlighting and pressing the delete button. I don't use, nor understand most of the tools & customizations in Word, but it seems to me that highlighting and deleting should be a very basic function. I searched Google, and everything that I found indicated that all I need to do is highlight and delete, but it doesn't work that way. So, any insight would be appreciated. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Thank you all for getting a solution, and sorry I didn't post back until
now, had to work 2 jobs today. I figured out the solution but didn't have time to fill you in. I asked a customer about the num lock thing, and he told me exactly what Suzanne suggested, and as far as the Word Perfect thing, well, I found that by accident, but was not sure until reading your post that I had indeed found the cause. I was checking all the options, stumbled on the Word Perfect setting and since I don't have Word Perfect, I deselected it. I made a few other changes, opened Word, and was able to highlight and delete text, but I wasn't sure which change I made was the one I was looking for. SO, thanks again, I appreciate your help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... On the General tab of Tools | Options, clear the check boxes for both items that refer to WordPerfect. -- 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. "lvee" wrote in message ... I have windows xp, a Dell bundled with Word 2002, and cannot figure out how to delete text in a document by merely highlighting and pressing the delete button. I don't use, nor understand most of the tools & customizations in Word, but it seems to me that highlighting and deleting should be a very basic function. I searched Google, and everything that I found indicated that all I need to do is highlight and delete, but it doesn't work that way. So, any insight would be appreciated. |
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Thanks for your help, and particularly the links you posted, much
appreciated. "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... The key you are referring to is a part of the numeric keypad and you have NumLock turned on. So, it is a decimal point (period). Likewise, the Home key on that keypad is a 7. So it is typing a period and replacing your selected text with the period. -- 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://www.mvps.org/word 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. "lvee" wrote in message ... sorry to keep adding to the post, but I noticed when I do use the del key, which also acts as a period when text is not highlighted, is does delete all text, except it leaves a period (.) at what would be the start of the sentence. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . What happens when you try? In Tools | Options, Edit, ensure "typing replaces selection" is checked. On 9/2/05 6:47 AM, "lvee" wrote: I have windows xp, a Dell bundled with Word 2002, and cannot figure out how to delete text in a document by merely highlighting and pressing the delete button. I don't use, nor understand most of the tools & customizations in Word, but it seems to me that highlighting and deleting should be a very basic function. I searched Google, and everything that I found indicated that all I need to do is highlight and delete, but it doesn't work that way. So, any insight would be appreciated. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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