Re: Word not behaving

[Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

I had a similar problem once. I was not able to cut or delete text by using the keyboard, but could do so by using the right-click mouse menu. It turned out someone had saved macros that used the X and "delete" keys as parts of hot key combinations for macros.


--- On Mon, 7/14/08, Holly Steele <hsteele1 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> From: Holly Steele <hsteele1 -at- gmail -dot- com>
> Subject: Word not behaving
> To: "SB" <sylvia -dot- braunstein -at- gmail -dot- com>
> Cc: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
> Date: Monday, July 14, 2008, 3:39 PM
> Hi
> 
> Have any of you ever had this problem?
> 
> In my Word document, I used to be able to use it normally.
> Now, for some
> reason it won't let me cut text or select a chunk of
> text and delete en
> mass. It is driving me CRAZY!!
> 
> This is a subdocument BUT the master document is not open
> so Word shouldn't
> be thinking that the document is locked or something.
> 
> Any suggestions would be welcome on how to overcome this
> particular problem.
> 
> Holly
> 
> >
> >
> >
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