Hi Ronald,

Two reasons why things might go wrong:

-- The Range of a table cell has two formatting characters (end-of-cell-marker = CHr(13) & Chr(7)) at the end.
If you aren't aware of that, you might go wrong by two characters.
(If I use Selection.Range.Text = "" on a cell it always deletes the text, no matter whether the whole cell or only the text was selected. But maybe your code is a bit more complicated?)

-- Look at your "Smart cut and paste" options in "Tools > Options > Edit". They explain why spaces you didn't select sometimes get deleted, or spaces get inserted when you insert text. The same should happen in the user interface (Del or Backspace key) with your settings.

If you like that in the user interface, but don't like it in your macros, you can temporarily change the settings.

Dim oldPasteAdjustWordSpacing As Boolean
Options.PasteAdjustWordSpacing = False
' ... your code ...
Options.PasteAdjustWordSpacing = oldPasteAdjustWordSpacing

Some other options might also apply... If you keep having problems, you might check them out, or check if the same thing that goes "wrong" in your macro also happens in the user interface.
Say, Selection.Delete will delete the character to the right of an insertion point (nothing selected) ... something you might not expect, but the same as happens with the Del key.

Greetings,
Klaus