Help with Microsoft Office and Backspace key?

Question

In MS Word and Powerpoint, whenever I highlight a whole selection of words and hit the backspace key, it refuses to delete the whole selection.

Similarly whenever I highlight a selection of word and key in other words or hit Enter (Return) it doesn't delete the selected words. Instead it just inserts whatever I typed before the selection.

How do I get MS office back to its original function where if I highlight a selection of words and type in new words, or hit enter or backspace, that selection of words get deleted.

My delete key works, and my backspace key works normally if i delete the words character by character. The highlight and backspace function still works outside of office. How do I solve this problem?

Like I said, the "highlight and delete function" still works, BUT I want to restore the "highlight and replace" function within MS Word.

Answer 1

Go to Tools
Options
Click on the Edit Tab
the first box is Typing Replaces Selection, make sure it is checked.

That should do it for you.

Answer 2

Try highliting and then pushing delete... does that not work? If that doesn't work try looking at the Help section in MO or MW.

Answer 3

Just hightlight the part that you want to delete then hit your delete key and it will remove it for ya.

Answer 4

restart ur computer o buy a new computer... haha.... restart it... and try again maybe it just oer heat