[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm wondering if there might be some accessibility option enabled that's
affecting this.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message
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Do you see the same behaviour if you start Word in Safe mode (press and
hold Ctrl while starting Word)?

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"WebColin70" wrote in message
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At a minimum, then, at least for some systems, there is interaction
between these settings that is not correct behavior. I still believe this
is a bug, even if it's not experienced by every user or on every system.

I generally work at not installing any fringe software or tinkering with
too many settings (to be fair, changing repeat delay would count as
tinkering). Yet on both my computers, one a Toshiba M400 tablet and one a
dual AMD Opteron desktop (no brand, built from parts), I experienced the
exact same problem. I realize that's not 1,000 systems, but given that
it's 100% reproducible on those systems, seems enough to say it's not
just a fluke.

- Colin

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
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Yes, I am saying that changing the minimum delay between key presses via
the Control Panel made no difference to the behavior of the Undo
function.

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"WebColin70" wrote in message
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Are you saying that Undo still removes whole words or phrases with the
repeat delay set to its minimum setting on your system?

On 2 separate Vista (SP2) computers now, I have confirmed that this
changes the way Word 2007 reacts to Undo. Other programs do not change
when changing this setting, only Word 2007 (12.0.6504.5000 SP2 MSO
(12.0.6425.1000)).

- Colin

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
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I do not see that setting making any difference to the functioning of
Undo here.

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"WebColin70" wrote in message
news On further investigation, I think it relates to the setting in the
Keyboard control panel, at least in Vista (all updates and SP's
applied) -- if that's set to the minimum delay between keypresses, it
changes how Undo works in Word. It does not change how Undo works in
Outlook, Live Mail, or any other application.

I think this qualifies as a bug in Word 2007, if others can reproduce
it.

Just go to Start | Control Panel | Keyboard | Speed tab, and set the
Repeat delay all the way to Short (I also happen to have the Repeat
rate all the way to Fast, but I don't think that's related). Then in
word, type a few words. Then hit undo. It will undo a character at a
time.

If you then change the Repeat delay to anything longer that Short,
Word will work as expected.

Again, this problem seems limited to Word, even the other Office 2007
applications don't have this problem. At the very least, it's
inconsistent.

- Colin

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
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That is not the way that undo works in 2007 here.

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"WebColin70" wrote in message
news I posted a similar question about a week ago, but no one answered.

In Word 2007, after typing new or replacement text, Undo (whether
by the button in the Quick Access bar, Ctrl-Z, or Alt-Backspace)
always just removes 1 character at a time, which I find too slow
for reverting text.

Is there a way to change this so Undo removes a word or other
larger block at a time instead of a character at a time? That's how
it works in the Outlook 2007 e-mail editor (and Live Mail for
posting to this newsgroup) and I swear that's how it always worked
in previous versions of Word, unless I paused for a long time
between each character I typed.

Am I right that this is new behavior in Word 2007?

Thanks,
Colin