Backspace highlights and deletes chunks of text

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Dave the Duck

This has slowly been driving me nuts: I'm typing up an essay, and if I use
the backspace key to delete something I've just typed Word tries to be
helpful by highlighting a few words on the first press, and deleting it all
on the second. This means that if I quickly try to backspace across two
letters I can actually end up deleting half a sentence instead.

Is there any way to turn this "feature" off? I've poked through the menus
but didn't have any luck.
 
garfield-n-odie said:
If you're using a wireless keyboard, try replacing the batteries
in it.
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Nope, it's a wired keyboard. The keyboard seems to work perfectly well in
every other program I use too, so I don't think it's a hardware problem.
 
No, it's not that either, although thank you for telling me about that, I
didn't know control deletes full words!

Unlike the control delete, the first backspace in this problem highlights a
word or a few words as if you'd highlighted them with the mouse, and it's the
second one that deletes it.
 
Perhaps you have EXT (Extend Selection) enabled? The shortcut key for this
is F8.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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