PP2007 ANNOYANCE: deleting placeholder

[fred]

Deleting a placeholder formerly required a simple click-del-del sequence; now
it's click-del-click-click-del

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[Glen Millar]

Fred,

This is a good find! What is happening is this. You click and delete once if
there is not content in the placeholder (no text, for example). But if there
is text, you click and delete. That deletes the contents (text)< and then
you click delete again!

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[fred]

What is happening is this. You click and delete once if
there is not content in the placeholder (no text, for example). But if there
is text, you click and delete.

Yes, I realize the text is deleted first. But the behavior in previous
versions was: click-Del to delete text, Del again to delete the whole
placeholder.

Now, when you click-Del to delete the text, the placeholder doesn't stay
selected, so you have to click again to re-select it. And, even if you click
right on the border, the first click gets you into edit text mode rather than
selecting the placeholder for deletion. So you have to click yet AGAIN before
you can finally hit Del and remove the placeholder. Two additional and
completely unnecessary clicks as compared to the more sensible behavior of
previous versions.

 

[Echo S]

Now, when you click-Del to delete the text, the placeholder doesn't stay
selected, so you have to click again to re-select it. And, even if you
click
right on the border, the first click gets you into edit text mode rather
than
selecting the placeholder for deletion. So you have to click yet AGAIN
before
you can finally hit Del and remove the placeholder. Two additional and
completely unnecessary clicks as compared to the more sensible behavior of
previous versions.

Yeah, Office 2007 is very click-happy in that respect. You've given a very
good description of one such instance, I think. When they rebuilt stuff,
they either didn't have the time or didn't take the time to refine stuff
like this, and it just makes it tedious to use.