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Title: How to delete text in all sorts of ways on your Mac
Post by: HCK on August 01, 2020, 04:05:16 pm
How to delete text in all sorts of ways on your Mac

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<p>If you’re a long-time Mac user or a new one, it’s possible you’re only aware of the Delete key, which is technically a “backward delete”: it deletes characters to the left of the current cursor in English and other languages that read left-to-right. It has its own symbol: ⌫. On various vintages of keyboards, you might find the word Delete, a leftward-pointing arrow ←, or both the arrow and the label. (For Mac users, it’s nearly always Delete; Backspace is more of a…Windows word.)</p><p>On extended keyboards, you may also find a “forward delete” option. It may also be labeled Delete or Del, and it has the forward delete symbol on it: ⌦. Press this and characters to the right of the insertion point are deleted.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3568390/how-to-delete-text-in-all-sorts-of-ways-on-your-mac.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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