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I'm using microsoft office 2011 and for some reason option-delete doesn't seem to have the standard behavior it usually does. It works fine in word and excel, however.

I don't have another computer to test with — can someone who has powerpoint 2011 see whether option-delete works fine for them too (I want to know whether this is an issue on my end or just microsoft's poor coding).

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Your question is a little vague because you don't clarify what you deem to be the standard behaviour of using optiondelete.

However, upon my own testing on an iMac with Office 2011, I can confirm that optiondelete within MS Word does in fact behave differently than it does in MS PowerPoint. However, I found that it behaves the same way in both Powerpoint and Excel.

More specifically, in MS Word using optiondelete will delete the entire word behind the cursor in MS Word, while in Powerpoint and Excel it only deletes a single character, just like it would by pressing the delete key on its own.

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    Standard behavior of option delete would be the way it works in cocoa based apps: that is, it deletes the word. It seems that powerpoint overrides this default behavior, however. Thank you for confirming. I guess now I have to write an applescript or something to replicate that behavior.
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    Commented May 23, 2017 at 16:23
  • kbroman.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/emacs-key-binings-in-ms-wo
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    Commented Aug 8, 2020 at 23:29

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