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Why confirm delete on select block/delete?
Now, when I select text, then press delete, it asks to confirm the delete in
the status bar. Why is it doing this and how can i stop it?? |
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Why confirm delete on select block/delete?
Which version of Word?
-- JoAnn Paules Microsoft MVP - Publisher How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 "ncmacasl" wrote in message ... Now, when I select text, then press delete, it asks to confirm the delete in the status bar. Why is it doing this and how can i stop it?? |
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Why confirm delete on select block/delete?
If you're using Word 2003 or earlier, it's due to the WordPerfect options.
Choose Tools Options General, and remove the checks next to the WordPerfect options. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Author of the Word 2007 Bible Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "ncmacasl" wrote in message ... Now, when I select text, then press delete, it asks to confirm the delete in the status bar. Why is it doing this and how can i stop it?? |
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Why confirm delete on select block/delete?
Thanks. that is exactly the problem!
"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: If you're using Word 2003 or earlier, it's due to the WordPerfect options. Choose Tools Options General, and remove the checks next to the WordPerfect options. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Author of the Word 2007 Bible Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "ncmacasl" wrote in message ... Now, when I select text, then press delete, it asks to confirm the delete in the status bar. Why is it doing this and how can i stop it?? |
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Why confirm delete on select block/delete?
Glad to be of service. About two or three thousand years ago, WordPerfect
for DOS actually used to prompt like that when you wanted to delete a block of text. I'm guessing that a frustrated archeology major at Microsoft thought that it might be nice to dig up and preserve that artifact in some way. So, when we say "WordPerfect" help/keystrokes in Word, we're talking ancient history. WordPerfect itself hasn't behaved that way in quite a long time. And, just for fun, sometimes those options seem to get turned on all by themselves, with no help from the user. Mercifully, the WordPerfect options no longer exist in Word 2007... something to look forward to. ;-) -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Author of the Word 2007 Bible Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "ncmacasl" wrote in message ... Thanks. that is exactly the problem! "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: If you're using Word 2003 or earlier, it's due to the WordPerfect options. Choose Tools Options General, and remove the checks next to the WordPerfect options. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Author of the Word 2007 Bible Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "ncmacasl" wrote in message ... Now, when I select text, then press delete, it asks to confirm the delete in the status bar. Why is it doing this and how can i stop it?? |
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Why confirm delete on select block/delete?
But if they *do* get turned on (by a poorly written add-in, for example,
which is the only way I can think of that they get turned on in previous versions), there's no way to turn them off short of a Registry edit (which is why they weren't removed from the UI many versions ago). I saw a post earlier today where someone's Home key didn't work, and I had dire suspicions. -- 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. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... Glad to be of service. About two or three thousand years ago, WordPerfect for DOS actually used to prompt like that when you wanted to delete a block of text. I'm guessing that a frustrated archeology major at Microsoft thought that it might be nice to dig up and preserve that artifact in some way. So, when we say "WordPerfect" help/keystrokes in Word, we're talking ancient history. WordPerfect itself hasn't behaved that way in quite a long time. And, just for fun, sometimes those options seem to get turned on all by themselves, with no help from the user. Mercifully, the WordPerfect options no longer exist in Word 2007... something to look forward to. ;-) -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Author of the Word 2007 Bible Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "ncmacasl" wrote in message ... Thanks. that is exactly the problem! "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: If you're using Word 2003 or earlier, it's due to the WordPerfect options. Choose Tools Options General, and remove the checks next to the WordPerfect options. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Author of the Word 2007 Bible Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "ncmacasl" wrote in message ... Now, when I select text, then press delete, it asks to confirm the delete in the status bar. Why is it doing this and how can i stop it?? |
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