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Default highlighting text and pressing backspace doesn't delete the text

In Tools Options Edit, check "Typing replaces selection".

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"stephen" wrote:

In word when I type in the text that i dont want I higlight it and normally
press backspace. But now I cant do that instead I have to press delete
otherwise it doesn't work.

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