Delete key

[Sensei]

Hi! I may be asking a weird question, but there it goes!

Using Word on my mac (Word:mac 2008) I am struggling to get my usual
key bindings work, that is, having Ctrl+A as "beginning of line",
Ctrl+E as "end of line", and so on. As you may recognize, they're all
good old UNIX key bindings.

Now, I succeeded in having my own key bindings for "beginning of line"
and "end of line", but I can't find anywhere the "Delete character at
cursor", or Ctrl+D in consoles (and other osx applications).

I surely misses the command... can anyone help me with this?

Thanks!


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Sensei <Sensei's e-mail is at Mac-dot-com>

Three things are certain
Death, taxes, and lost data
Guess which has occurred. (Computer's Haiku)

 

[Elliott Roper]

Hi! I may be asking a weird question, but there it goes!

Using Word on my mac (Word:mac 2008) I am struggling to get my usual
key bindings work, that is, having Ctrl+A as "beginning of line",
Ctrl+E as "end of line", and so on. As you may recognize, they're all
good old UNIX key bindings.

Now, I succeeded in having my own key bindings for "beginning of line"
and "end of line", but I can't find anywhere the "Delete character at
cursor", or Ctrl+D in consoles (and other osx applications).

I surely misses the command... can anyone help me with this?

It was called EditClear in Word 2004
You should be able to tools È customize .... yadda
a ^D to it unless 2008 is wildly different..

 

[Sensei]

It was called EditClear in Word 2004
You should be able to tools » customize .... yadda
a ^D to it unless 2008 is wildly different..

Yes! Thank you very much, I would have never been able to imagine that
macro name!

--

Sensei <Sensei's e-mail is at Mac-dot-com>

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
(Wernher von Braun)

 

[Clive Huggan]

Yes! Thank you very much, I would have never been able to imagine that
macro name!

You have made Elliott a very happy man. When he hears of people who do
everything by keying, he is elated for several days afterwards.... ;-)

Clive Huggan
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[Elliott Roper]

You have made Elliott a very happy man. When he hears of people who do
everything by keying, he is elated for several days afterwards.... ;-)

As usual Clive, you are perfectly correct. I am also grateful to Sensei
for reminding me to add that ^D to my own.

My trick for finding/remembering command names in Tools È Customize, is
to choose an innocent command, then assign to it a keystroke that I
know belongs to a similar command to that which I seek. When Word tells
me that it is already assigned to the command I sort-of know, I rummage
in "all commands" for similar names that might do what I really want.
A few minutes experimentation, a few minutes hurling abuse at
Microsoft's inane modal dialogs, a coffee or six to de-polarize my
teeth, and I'm good to go.

Is this a rational or logical procedure? Hell No! But in the absence of
adequate documentation, and in the presence of Microsoft's
idiosyncratic naming and categorising of commands it is the best I can
come up with.

Now where did I leave my emacs cheat-sheet?

 

[Clive Huggan]

On 3/10/08 8:22 PM, in article 031020081122068983%[email protected], "Elliott

Now where did I leave my emacs cheat-sheet?

Under the medicat -- er, chocolates... ;-)

CH
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