We’ve all been there, writing a document in Word and, if your typing skills are like mine, you focus on the keyboard, rather than the screen to see what you’ve typed.
Then wehn uyo lkoo up yuo’ve tyepd gibberish which, of course, Word won’t have fully corrected for you on this occasion.
So we have to delete & start again.
But the question is: Is there a quick way of deleting blocks of text without continually hammering the BACKSPACE key?
Delete a full line
By moving your mouse into the left-hand margin of your document, the pointer changes from an I bar
to an upward-pointing bottom left to top right arrow…
If you then align that with the row of text that you’ve typed incorrectly, then left-click to select the row, then press delete, the whole row will be deleted.
You’ll also not that the mini-formatting bar will also appear, so you can use the same selection trick (‘though without pressing the DELETE button!) to format some of your text
Delete a full paragraph
When the mouse is pointing left to right in the right-hand margin, left clicking TWICE will select the whole paragraph…
… and the same mini-toolbar appears in case you want to do some formatting instead of deleting
Delete a word at a time
If it’s only a couple of words that have been mis-typed, then holding the CTRL key down at the same time as pressing the BACKSPACE key, deletes a word at a time
