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.

197 Responses to “Highlight and backspace doesn’t work – Microsoft Word”

  1. Chantelle says:

    Amazing!
    Thanks so much!
    I was starting to get extremely annoyed

  2. Saeed says:

    Thxxxxxxx

    I was trying to fix this for past 2 or 3 days !
    That was easy lol

  3. Too me its not the fact that it was the voice deal it’s the fact that break downs and bsod sure happen a lot to m$ during their demos. Really…. How many have there been… not sure I can count that high, has it ever happened to apple? (i dont know, asking..)

  4. I read that post, I think it was extremely entertaining and fair. Presenting it that way really brought out a lot of points, a lot of information and links thrown in as well. Can you rebut any of the points?

  5. I’m bookmarking this! (please don’t change your link :D )

  6. think it was extremely entertaining and fair. Presenting it that way really brought out a lot of points, a lot of information and links thrown in as well. Can you rebut any of the points? I don’t think so.

  7. Jason might be a great guy but he accepted to be in the difficult job of being the open source representative in a company that doesn’t really have a track record of acting in the best interest of free software and open source.

  8. Cristian says:

    EXCELLENT!!! thanks a lot

  9. Janie says:

    helped a ton!!! thanks! I have had this problem for the past week now, and didn’t know it could be fixed this easily.

  10. Ellie says:

    Thanks so much!! This was getting so annoying, if it happened any longer I was gonna throw my laptop against a wall! I never thought of Googling it. I fail at life XD

  11. Jen says:

    Thank you!!!

  12. Chris says:

    Such a frustrating problem–thanks a lot for the help!

  13. rea says:

    This worked great! Thanks I am a buffoon at this kind of stuff but it worked out great.

  14. Melissa says:

    Thank you so much – this is really annoying and hard to explain.

  15. V V says:

    thnx soooooooo much! it happens from time to time. do u no y???

  16. tere says:

    thank you so much! this was super helpful!

  17. Daniel says:

    Thanks a lot! Great job posting this!

  18. GC says:

    Wow…how did that get unchecked in the first place?! Thank you!

  19. poohface says:

    Zomg totally roffelcopter o doom! – i was like omg, how did that get unchecked, found this thread and i was like zomg totally over the moon.

    Spanks for the info, iz a massif help, innit.

  20. Wow…how did that get unchecked in the first place?! Thank you!

  21. Bernice says:

    The most irritating problems are those I’ve figured out before and then forget. This was one frustrating me for three weeks. Thankk you!

  22. Joe B says:

    Thank you my friend,

    solved it 1st time!

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