RE: Delete key problems

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Another thing that will create exactly the same symptom is if your Track
Changes is turned on, and the option for deleted text is set to None. The
lady at the desk next to mine was driving herself crazy last week trying to
figure this one out.

Fred

"1touch" wrote:

When I highlight some text to delete in Word and press the back space key,
the text no longer deletes. I have to hit the delete key. This has happened
all of a sudden it was working fine with the backspace key before. I'm
wondering if I've hit a button on the keyboard to make this suddenly stop
working? Any help to turn this function back on?
.

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