Important Notice

The pages on this site contain documentation for very old MS-DOS software, purely for historical purposes. If you're looking for up-to-date documentation, particularly for programming, you should not rely on the information found here, as it will be woefully out of date.

Delete
 
To remove text from the document you are working
on. In Word, you delete permanently by pressing
the Delete key. (Note: Choose Edit Undo to replace
text you have deleted by mistake.) You can delete
characters and place them in the scrap by
pressing Shift+Delete; if you turn off the Use
INS For Overtype Key option in the Utilities
Customize dialog box, you can then insert the
text from the scrap into a specified location in
your document. You can also delete text by
pressing the Backspace key. See also: Glossary;
Scrap.