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Word 2007 Delete key intermittent failure to delete
I am using Word 2007. Intermittently the delete key doesn't delete but merely moves the cursor along one character to the right. At the moment I get round this by copying the whole text of the document I am working on and pasting it into a new document and work on the new document. But can this problem be fixed so that I do not have to do this? -- Stephen White ) |
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Word 2007 Delete key intermittent failure to delete
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:22:11 +0100, Stephen White
wrote: I am using Word 2007. Intermittently the delete key doesn't delete but merely moves the cursor along one character to the right. At the moment I get round this by copying the whole text of the document I am working on and pasting it into a new document and work on the new document. But can this problem be fixed so that I do not have to do this? I suspect that you're turning on Track Changes without realizing it (probably hitting Ctrl+Shift+E by mistake), and that the Track Changes option for deleted text is set to "(none)" so the change just looks like ordinary text. To verify the suspicion, right-click the status bar at the bottom of the Word window and check the option to display Track Changes on the status bar. The next time the Delete key doesn't delete, look at the status indicator. Also, go to the Reviewing tab of the ribbon, click the down arrow in the Track Changes button, and click Change Tracking Options. Set the markup for deletions to Strikethrough, maybe with a red color. That will make it obvious that Track Changes has hijacked your Delete key. When changes are inadvertently tracked, you have to turn it off AND click the Accept button's down arrow and choose Accept All Changes in Document. Don't leave the changes sitting in the document. See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trac...ngesWorks.html for more on this. -- 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 2007 Delete key intermittent failure to delete
Thanks for this suggestion. I asked on behalf of a friend and will pass on your message to her. In article , Jay Freedman writes On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:22:11 +0100, Stephen White wrote: I am using Word 2007. Intermittently the delete key doesn't delete but merely moves the cursor along one character to the right. At the moment I get round this by copying the whole text of the document I am working on and pasting it into a new document and work on the new document. But can this problem be fixed so that I do not have to do this? I suspect that you're turning on Track Changes without realizing it (probably hitting Ctrl+Shift+E by mistake), and that the Track Changes option for deleted text is set to "(none)" so the change just looks like ordinary text. To verify the suspicion, right-click the status bar at the bottom of the Word window and check the option to display Track Changes on the status bar. The next time the Delete key doesn't delete, look at the status indicator. Also, go to the Reviewing tab of the ribbon, click the down arrow in the Track Changes button, and click Change Tracking Options. Set the markup for deletions to Strikethrough, maybe with a red color. That will make it obvious that Track Changes has hijacked your Delete key. When changes are inadvertently tracked, you have to turn it off AND click the Accept button's down arrow and choose Accept All Changes in Document. Don't leave the changes sitting in the document. See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trac...ngesWorks.html for more on this. -- 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. -- Stephen White ) |
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