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deleting to the right?

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Does anyone know if there's a keyboard short cut to delete something to the right of the cursor? I have an ex windows user who's complaining that she can't delete stuff to the right of the cursor.
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Full-sized Apple keyboards have a forward delete key to the left of the end key.
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Thank you so much for showing me this obvious key. :oops:
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donbray wrote:Does anyone know if there's a keyboard short cut to delete something to the right of the cursor? I have an ex windows user who's complaining that she can't delete stuff to the right of the cursor.
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Yes, and if you DON'T have a full sized keyboard, like on my iBook for example, you can hold down Fn and use the back delete key.
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Dog bless you James!
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This is too funny. I have a friend who insists that PCs are "better" than Macs simply because you cannot delete forward on a Mac. :?: I told her that isn't true, only on certain keyboards and there are workarounds (not to mention Quickeys) but nevertheless she continues to buy PC after crashing PC just for the damn "forward delete key" like even if that was missing from Macs it would be enough of a reason to suffer thru all those PCs. :lol:
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