Microsoft Wordâ„¢ 2002 (10.2627.2625) has an extremely crap ‘new feature’.
When you press the Delete key with a block of text selected, nothing happens.
If you notice down in the bottom left corner, Word asks if you want to delete the block, requiring you to press the Y key.
Talk about crap interface design. Having to press two keys to delete a block of text, when there is a perfectly good undo system in place if you accidentally delete the wrong text.
How often do you accidentally delete a block of text, anyway? And why not make the consistency of having to press ‘y’ when you go to overtype a block of text? Or press Enter when a block of text is selected?
I’m now going to have to use the latter, rather than delete.
Microsoft, you guys suck.
Apparently, this is a feature that has been there before - just for some reason I’ve never come across it.
To fix it, go to Tools / Options… / General, and uncheck the “Help for Word Perfect Users” box.
I mean, come on, how many people using WOrd have even heard of Word Perfect nowadays?
25 minutes after the fact.
Eeek!!! I’m glad I’m using a previous version in this case.
15 hours, 19 minutes after the fact.