my backspace is too slow!

[tayla]

i have microsoft office 2007 on a windows vista laptop.
only in word, when i hold down backspace to get rid of a whole chunk of text
it goes so slowly. it's faster for me to repeatedly press backspace than just
hold it down, because it just takes forever. how do i make it faster? also,
in other solutions i've found there is supposed to be something you can go
into in control panel>keyboard, but because i have a laptop there's no
keyboard icon. please help asap - it's driving me crazy.

 

[Joseph Meehan]

Try just highlighting the text them press delete. You can do a whole page
is a second or two.

 

[tayla]

sorry, i should have been more clear
it's not always to get rid of a lot of text. even just to backspace a single
word is annoying how slow it goes

 

[db]

I recall having that problem
too.

but I don't exactly remember
what it took to resolve it.

I suppose if it happened to
me again, the first thing I
would do is to boot into safe mode
and also safe mode with
networking.

then launch the office modules
in those environments to
observe that issue.

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