I noticed this in the beta release but shrugged it off as a beta bug. I see
now that I should have reported it as a bug because it seems to have been
rolled out in the RTM release.

I have gotten into the habit of hitting Ctrl+Backspace to undo entire words
of recently typed text. This is a great time saver. Unfortunately, in
Outlook 2007, I am seeing the e-mail editor spit out squares (i.e. valueless
Unicode character blocks). It's erratic; I can hold Ctrl down and keep
hitting Backspace and it might create two squares, maybe five squares, maybe
one, before it will finally "catch on" and start deleting words (squares
first) preceding the caret.

This is a nuisance and being as I have to deal with it in pretty much every
e-mail I send it is most certainly not acceptable as quality assured for
being a gold release.

Jon

I looked at the keyboard shortcuts for Outlook 2007, and it lists
ALT+Backspace. Have you tried that?

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"Jon Davis" wrote in message
:

I noticed this in the beta release but shrugged it off as a beta bug. I see
now that I should have reported it as a bug because it seems to have been
rolled out in the RTM release.

I have gotten into the habit of hitting Ctrl+Backspace to undo entire words
of recently typed text. This is a great time saver. Unfortunately, in
Outlook 2007, I am seeing the e-mail editor spit out squares (i.e. valueless
Unicode character blocks). It's erratic; I can hold Ctrl down and keep
hitting Backspace and it might create two squares, maybe five squares, maybe
one, before it will finally "catch on" and start deleting words (squares
first) preceding the caret.

This is a nuisance and being as I have to deal with it in pretty much every
e-mail I send it is most certainly not acceptable as quality assured for
being a gold release.

Jon

I don't know what Alt+BS does, but it doesn't do what Ctrl+BS does
(universally, which is delete the word preceding the caret). I just tried
putting junk in an e-mail and putting the caret in the middle and hit Alt+BS
and it seemed to do an undo or something, as the caret found itself at the
end of the text.

Jon

"Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote in message
...
I looked at the keyboard shortcuts for Outlook 2007, and it lists
ALT+Backspace. Have you tried that?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
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"Jon Davis" wrote in message
:

I noticed this in the beta release but shrugged it off as a beta bug. I
see
now that I should have reported it as a bug because it seems to have been
rolled out in the RTM release.

I have gotten into the habit of hitting Ctrl+Backspace to undo entire
words
of recently typed text. This is a great time saver. Unfortunately, in
Outlook 2007, I am seeing the e-mail editor spit out squares (i.e.
valueless
Unicode character blocks). It's erratic; I can hold Ctrl down and keep
hitting Backspace and it might create two squares, maybe five squares,
maybe
one, before it will finally "catch on" and start deleting words (squares
first) preceding the caret.

This is a nuisance and being as I have to deal with it in pretty much
every
e-mail I send it is most certainly not acceptable as quality assured for
being a gold release.

Jon

Alt+BS is Undo. You had said in your previous post Undo not Delete.
If I use Ctrl-Backspace here, it does what you described. It deletes the
word to the left of the caret. I'd suggest that you close Outlook, and
rename your NormalEmail.dotm file. Outlook will create a new one when
you reopen it and that might take care of your problem.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed



"Jon Davis" wrote in message
:

I don't know what Alt+BS does, but it doesn't do what Ctrl+BS does
(universally, which is delete the word preceding the caret). I just tried
putting junk in an e-mail and putting the caret in the middle and hit Alt+BS
and it seemed to do an undo or something, as the caret found itself at the
end of the text.

Jon

"Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote in message
...
I looked at the keyboard shortcuts for Outlook 2007, and it lists
ALT+Backspace. Have you tried that?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

"Jon Davis" wrote in message
:

I noticed this in the beta release but shrugged it off as a beta bug. I
see
now that I should have reported it as a bug because it seems to have been
rolled out in the RTM release.

I have gotten into the habit of hitting Ctrl+Backspace to undo entire
words
of recently typed text. This is a great time saver. Unfortunately, in
Outlook 2007, I am seeing the e-mail editor spit out squares (i.e.
valueless
Unicode character blocks). It's erratic; I can hold Ctrl down and keep
hitting Backspace and it might create two squares, maybe five squares,
maybe
one, before it will finally "catch on" and start deleting words (squares
first) preceding the caret.

This is a nuisance and being as I have to deal with it in pretty much
every
e-mail I send it is most certainly not acceptable as quality assured for
being a gold release.

Jon

I'd suggest that you close Outlook, and rename your NormalEmail.dotm file.
Outlook will create a new one when you reopen it and that might take care
of your problem.

Thanks for the advice. That seems to have fixed it!!

Jon

This is an old thread but I never followed up to say that I was mistaken and
did NOT fix it. The symptom was revealed immediately after my last reply.

I now have another computer on which Office 2007 is installed (it never saw
the beta version) and it has the same symptom.... Ctrl+Backspace puts out
squares half the time.

Jon

"Jon Davis" wrote in message
...
I'd suggest that you close Outlook, and rename your NormalEmail.dotm
file. Outlook will create a new one when you reopen it and that might
take care of your problem.

Thanks for the advice. That seems to have fixed it!!

Jon