ofc 2003 outlook unable delete copied docs on new unsent emails

[Fred @ Home]

i find that when i drag my cursor over all or part of a document that i had
recently copied into a newly created e-mail document (outlook 2003/word 2003
email editor) and then decided i no longer wished to have that document
contained in whole or part of that e-mail it correctly highlights all words
that i dragged over, but when i hit the "delete " key on my keyboard to
delete this highlighted and unwanted data, it does not delete...nothing
happens. i further checked that i can place my cursor on the first character
of any word and click and i can then start deleting char by char and that
works ok.. but it is inefficient, especially when i want to delete what could
be hundreds/thousands of words in succession. this had worked fine less than
a few days ago. but something happened and i dont know what.
i am using microsoft opffice 2003 with outlook 2003 e-mail and Word 2003 as
the editor. i would appreciate it very much if someone could tell me how i
can restore the old method of dragging the cursor over to highlight and then
just hitting the keyboard "delete" key.

fred@home

 

[Roady [MVP]]

And that's only in Outlook and not any other application? What happens when
you press Backspace after making your selection or any other character on
your keyboard?

 

[John G]

It would help us understand your problem if first you learnt to use the
SHIFT key .
John G.

 

[Fred @ Home]

ok to answer your question
yes it happens only in outlook . it just started happening and I dont
know what triggered it. when i hit backspace it will detlete one character
only.. it started happening at about or at the same time as other things
went different in the way they acted then previous... I am trying to think
of an example but I am cmg up blank.. got one... previously when I created an
e-mail the and hit the "view" button it gave me different type of view
selections... I am sorry but I dont remember the selection names but one
would format the message in a different fomat from the other. there are
other things that are not the same but again I am pulling a blank ) it is 145
amed and i have been up since yesterday at 4 amedt so i think it best to
send this out and pick up on this conversation later on this morning after
some shut-eye.. i wil check back early Tuesday afternoon to see if you have
had time to read this... thanks
Fred/

 

[Fred @ Home]

one last bit of info before I turn in..
to give you and idea and an example of the problem

I create a new e-mail
I use these emails to save a forest.. I used to print stock prices and fund
performances on my printer. now I go to mymsn.com and there I have set up a
listing of stocks that i am interested in... after cob I go to mymsn.com and
copy and paste the listing of stocks with closing price and change etc. I
then paste that info into my e-mail. I then can select some of the entries
such as the DOW, AT&T and Verizon and that results in daily hourly graphs
and stats on these stocks or indices. I copy those and also paste them into
the e-mail.. I also go to FIDELITY sehre my 401k is invested and print a few
of the pages relative to that days changes.. (i have to do this after about
9 pmedt to get the closing data relative to various plans in am invested
in...all this goes into the same email and I use a date in the subject (eg:
today 20080513 COB TUESDAY ) followed by some key values that I put in for
each day... i then send this email to myself and when it comes into my inbox
i move it to a folder where all previous days data in sorted by the subject.
thats it in a nutshell. i no longer print many pages each night but
instead just go to that e-mail folder to see trends, etc.. I have plans on
putting it into an xcell spreadsheet but that has not happened yet.

now up to a week or so ago i could go into that email while i am building
it and just drag my cursor over anything and highlight it and then just hit
the delete key on my kbd and erase it..

i can no longer do that... and I dont know why...

i have gone into "help" and done a successful "detect and repair" and still
have the same problem.. i am wondering if i should mount my original disk and
do a "repair" of office 2003>>> ???

thats it... talk at you later...