Delete This Word

[MC]

An old gripe of mine.

In the late (and quite lamented) WordPerfect for the Mac there was a
keystroke command that would delete a whole word, no matter where the
cursor was placed in it.

In Word, Cmd-Delete key deletes from the insertion point to the start of
the word, leaving stray letters. And Cmd-Forward Delete deletes from the
insertion point to the end of the word.

The only way to delete the whole word is to Select it and Delete it --
two steps.

How hard would it be to simply put in a one-step Delete This Word
command and assign it to a keystroke?

 

[John McGhie]

It used to be easy, in Word 2004. In word 2008, you can't do it. Sorry:
that was one that relied on VBA.

You can, of course, double-click the word and hit Delete.

Cheers

An old gripe of mine.

In the late (and quite lamented) WordPerfect for the Mac there was a
keystroke command that would delete a whole word, no matter where the
cursor was placed in it.

In Word, Cmd-Delete key deletes from the insertion point to the start of
the word, leaving stray letters. And Cmd-Forward Delete deletes from the
insertion point to the end of the word.

The only way to delete the whole word is to Select it and Delete it --
two steps.

How hard would it be to simply put in a one-step Delete This Word
command and assign it to a keystroke?

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[MC]

You can, of course, double-click the word and hit Delete.

Which is what I do... and with a button on my mouse assigned to double
click it's no real hadrship.

But I've never understood why anyone would want -- on a regular basis --
to delete *part* of a word (forwardor backward from the insertion
point). Surely it must be far more common to want to delete a whole
word...

 

[JE McGimpsey]

But I've never understood why anyone would want -- on a regular basis --
to delete *part* of a word (forwardor backward from the insertion
point). Surely it must be far more common to want to delete a whole
word...

For me it's much more common to delete part - most often the ending, in
order to make tenses agree.

I've also trained myself to type as fast as possible and ignore the
errors. AutoCorrect gets many of them, but I have to manually go back
and change the others, whether insertions or deletions. Overall, it's
*far* faster than hitting delete every time I make a mistake.

 

[John McGhie]

Of course you are right It's just one of those things they didn't get
around to...

I've been doing this for ten years. I think you are the second of
300,000,000 users I have seen mention the feature

Cheers

Which is what I do... and with a button on my mouse assigned to double
click it's no real hadrship.

But I've never understood why anyone would want -- on a regular basis --
to delete *part* of a word (forwardor backward from the insertion
point). Surely it must be far more common to want to delete a whole
word...

--
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Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[MC]

But I've never understood why anyone would want -- on a regular basis --
to delete *part* of a word (forwardor backward from the insertion
point). Surely it must be far more common to want to delete a whole
word...

For me it's much more common to delete part - most often the ending, in
order to make tenses agree.

I've also trained myself to type as fast as possible and ignore the
errors. AutoCorrect gets many of them, but I have to manually go back
and change the others, whether insertions or deletions. Overall, it's
*far* faster than hitting delete every time I make a mistake.[/QUOTE]

That's pretty muchthe way I work too -- although I use TypeIt4Me rather
thann AutoCorrect -- it works in every app, not just Word, and you can
save sets of abbreviations so the same trigger can expand to different
results depending on the project.

Likewise I spell-check at the end, not as I go -- hate those little red
reminders all over the place...