wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (02/23/89)
In my everyday computer work, I routinely use the "control-H" key
sequence instead of the BACKSPACE key -- since I am a touch typist, and
using ^H lets me keep my fingers closer to their home positions on the
keyboard. Also, I can rattle off a series of ^H's (with my right index
finger) much more easily than I can reach for the BACKSPACE and hit it
repeatedly with my right little finger.
However, Microsoft Word does not recognize ^H -- it just beeps when I
type a ^H. If I want to backspace in Microsoft Word, I have to reach
over and hit the BACKSPACE key. (I am using Word version 4.0 for the
PC, by the way.)
I tried defining a macro and binding it to ^H, as follows (see the
"Macros" chapter starting on page 321 in the Word 4.0 manual):
(1) Type the following text: <backspace>
(including the angle brackets)
(2) Select the above text.
(3) Select COPY from the command menu.
(4) Type the following as the name of the glossary entry to copy the
selected text to: bs^<ctrl h>
If I do this, ^H will function as a backspace. However, it is unaccept-
ably slow: if I type several ^H's in rapid succession, some of them are
ignored. (I'm running Word in "text" mode on a Hercules-clone mono dis-
play card, so this slowness is *not* due to Word's slowness in editing a
graphics display.)
Is there any other way to make control-H function as a backspace in
Microsoft Word 4.0?
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