what keyboard language? any addins installed? Any apps like tweakUi
installed?

Ctrl+Bkspace and arrows works as expected here on both windows xp and vista
so the problem is something on your machines.

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"Jon Davis" wrote in message
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I am still waiting for Microsoft to fix the screwy keyboard control
handling in Outlook. Ctrl+backspace is supposed to delete the word
preceding the caret, not insert unknown char Unicode square blocks. Arrow
keys are supposed to move the caret around, not just make it blink faster.
Half the time these keys work, half the time they don't, I just keep
pressing them until they work.

Using default editor settings in Outlook, with v2007 installed on two
machines--a laptop w/ Vista Ultimate and a workstation w/ Windows Server
2003 R2. Only the Win2003R2 box has the arrow problem, both of them have
the Ctrl+Backspace problem.

I am so annoyed with Outlook 2007 I am disgusted with Microsoft for
letting this happen. It seems clear that a whole new generation of
young'ns have infiltrated the Redmond camps, where they completely forgot
about or never learned the importance and relevance of QA'ing the
keystroke driven user interfacing!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jon