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Brian Gerards - 08 Feb 2004 23:56 GMT

I have two problems with Word for MAC. 1) I can't seem to delete words or lines in a document. When I highlight a word or sentence and try to delete the words remain. Have I done something in the dropdowns?; 2) No matter how I set up the line spacing I always get double or triple spacing. I'd like single spacing.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 09 Feb 2004 01:21 GMT

Don't know about Mac, but in Winword when you can't delete a selection with
Delete, it's the fault of the WordPerfect settings on the General tab of
Tools | Options (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/UnableToDeleteText.htm). When you can't
delete text with Backspace, it's because you don't have "Typing replaces
selection" checked on the Edit tab of Tools | Options.

If you're seeing space between paragraphs rather than within them (that is,
after you press Enter), check the Space Before/After setting (in Format |
Paragraph) as well as the line spacing. Also, check to make sure that the
vertical alignment (Layout tab of Page Setup) is set to Top and not
justified.

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> I have two problems with Word for MAC. 1) I can't seem to delete words or lines in a document. When I highlight a word or sentence and try to delete

the words remain. Have I done something in the dropdowns?; 2) No matter how
I set up the line spacing I always get double or triple spacing. I'd like
single spacing.

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Brian Gerards - 12 Feb 2004 02:01 GMT

Though my Mac doesn't have TOOLS > OPTION I got into Preferences and began to scout around and somehow got them both to work as I wanted. Thanks a bunch!

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