Highlight and backspace doesn’t work – Microsoft Word

My roommate just had this problem with Microsoft Word 2003, and I found the fix using the Google search engine. Here’s what you do:

Tools -> Options -> Edit
Check “Typing Replaces Selection”

That’s all my roommate had to do. For the sake of completeness, the fix also says:

Tools -> Options -> General
Uncheck both options that have WordPerfect in them

Hope this helps someone.

194 thoughts on “Highlight and backspace doesn’t work – Microsoft Word

  1. I am having the same problem, but it works in Word and everywhere else….except AIM. I’ve never had this problem before. Any suggestions?

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  3. Thank you! I’m starting school soon and without this fix, writing 12 page essays would have been SO difficult! Thanks!

  4. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! THIS HAS BEEN DRIVING ME INSANE! I can’t believe how easy this was to google! I spent a good 3 hours searching through the Word database trying to find some sort of solution or even clue and got absolutely NOTHING.

    THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  5. Thanks so much, it was really getting to me. Gotta have an assignment done for tomorrow and I use this so much.

  6. YOU are a life saver! this has been bugging me for ages and your the first link i clicked on for help!

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