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Anyone have a tip they can share for deleting - text while editing?

Posted: Nov 02, 2014

When doing VR, which of course is 98% of the time, I keep my hands at the bottom of the keyboard, left hand near Cntl, right hand hovering over the arrow keys. Since there is a lot of deleting to do, you have to reach up to the top right corner of the laptop to press delete. Of course I always have to look to make sure I don't accidentally hit insert. It's so annoying. Is there an easier way that I'm not thinking of? Any suggestions would be SOOOO appreciated. Thanks in advance!

What expander program are you using? - MMK

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There is a post about an easy way to highlight text on the Instant Text Facebook page. It would be the first step before deleting text which could be part of the same expansion.

Unfortunately, all I have is MS Word.... - AutoCorrect....

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You can use SharpKeys (free) to reassign the Delete key - to one more convenient.

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Here's the link:

https://sharpkeys.codeplex.com/

Click the "Download" tab and get the Microsoft Installer version (extension is .msi). Double-click that and it should install automatically. It's fairly self-explanatory from there.

Thank you! This is - exactly what I need!

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I wish I had known about this in the past. A while back I had paid a company $95 to remap my keyboard. THANKS A BUNCH!!!!

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