Word 2008: Can't select & delete text in reviewing pane

[CoifSyrup]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I finally upgraded to Office 2008 (Home & Student edition) after years of being content with the old Office X. (The new docx files made me do it.)

I use Word's track changes and comments features all day, every day. Never had a problem until now. When I select text within a comment in the reviewing pane and hit delete, nothing happens. The only way I can delete text in the reviewing pane is letter by letter with the delete key. This is really slowing me down and driving me nuts. Any idea how I can debug this?

I removed the older version of Office before installing 2008, also repaired permissions, logged out and in, rebooted, etc. What have I missed? Or is this just a "feature" of Word 2008?

Thanks in advance.

 

[John McGhie]

Yeah, it's a bug (a careless conversion of a lump of code they pinched from
the PC version of Word).

Word is looking for the "Forward Delete" key (the one marked "DEL" on most
Mac keyboards). They forgot to map the "Backspace" key to the function. Of
course, the key marked "delete" on a Mac keyboard is "Backspace" not
"Delete" so the function doesn't work.

If you are on a laptop, you can produce a Forward Delete with "Function +
Delete".

Annoying...

Hope this helps

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I finally upgraded to Office 2008 (Home & Student edition) after years of
being content with the old Office X. (The new docx files made me do it.)

I use Word's track changes and comments features all day, every day. Never had
a problem until now. When I select text within a comment in the reviewing pane
and hit delete, nothing happens. The only way I can delete text in the
reviewing pane is letter by letter with the delete key. This is really slowing
me down and driving me nuts. Any idea how I can debug this?

I removed the older version of Office before installing 2008, also repaired
permissions, logged out and in, rebooted, etc. What have I missed? Or is this
just a "feature" of Word 2008?

Thanks in advance.

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