Backspace when editing comments

[Benjamin Barrett]

Press the backspace once when editing in a comment and the focus jumps to the
comment. Press it again, and the comment disappears.

This is a long-standing bug. Is this scheduled to be fixed any time soon?

 

[Stefan Blom]

I doubt that it is a bug; it could have been added to prevent
inadvertent deletion of comments. Actually, the same thing happens with
footnotes, endnotes, and fields.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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Press the backspace once when editing in a comment and the focus jumps to the
comment. Press it again, and the comment disappears.

This is a long-standing bug. Is this scheduled to be fixed any time

soon?

 

[Benjamin Barrett]

Actually, it *causes* the inadvertent deletion of comments. When writing a
comment, I'll hit the backspace twice to delete characters I've written, and
then the comment is gone! It also happens with some objects, though it
doesn't happen with footnotes or endnotes as far as I've noticed.

 

[Stefan Blom]

What I was referring to was the fact that if the insertion point is to
the right of a footnote or endnote number, a field or a comment and you
then press BackSpace, the item won't be deleted (as an ordinary
character would have been) but selected instead; the item will be
deleted if you press BackSpace a second time (or, of course, if you
press Delete).

I realize now that I misunderstood your first post. Are you saying that
the
comment gets deleted when you edit its text? That I have never seen.

Does this happen with all documents or with specific documents?
Version(s) of Word affected?

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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