deleting text

K

kbsmith9

I just upgraded to XP home edition and have had a few problems but most are
corrected. In MS Word when I wanted to delete a word or line of text, I would
just highlight it and the next keystroke or back space would elininate it.
Now when I hit backspace it eliminates the highlight and the cursor jumps
back to front of the highlighted text. I would like to do this without going
to the edit menu and hitting clear which eliminates the highlighted text.
Thanks
Kelly
Ohio
Dell 4100
40G, 20G used
512 RAM
 
L

Luc

Kelly,
Go to Tools - Options - Edit tab - see if overwrite selected text is
checked.
Also on the General tab uncheck the two WordPerfect options.
 
K

kbsmith9

The word perfect boxes were not checked but typing replaces selection took
care of the problem.
Thanks to all.
Kelly
 

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