Delete Key only in Microstation not working

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To whom it may concern, 
 something changed, and I'm not shure, if it had something to do with Microstation, the laptop or windows. 
 When activating an element I usually could delete it when pressing the delete key on the keyboard - this changed and I have to use the microstation delete button. 
 As this is only happening in Microstation and no other program it looks to me like a Microstation problem - am I right? 
 I'm still using windows 7, but I think this has nothing to do with it - seems to me as if I pressed a wrong button .... 
 
 Help appreciated. 
 Best Regards 
 Carsten

Lorys · Answer

before I retired I was almost tempted to remap the F1 key and have "delete" assigned to it instead of using the delete key on the keyboard which is its on opposite side to my free left hand and I dont want to change the mouse hand or add delete to the RMB , which is too many actions for a delete when the delete key stops working, alternative F1 its better than using the delete key.. not tested now retired from work... but it may be a good work around, as the esc key is set for cancel command in prefs, and I hate using the icon for delete... note however I never had problem with undo control Z and control R , always worked for me...

alexis nichols · Answer

I found the answer, for myself, anyway. I somehow had the Data Point Keyin dialog box in my top ribbon. Even though I wasn't actively using it, apparently when I'd select an element, it would activate to that dialog box, so that every time I pressed my normal "delete" key, it would think I was deleting text in that dialog box line instead. Closed the dialog box and it works perfectly.

Lorys · Answer

Might be for you but it was never my experience as it was sporadic for me and several of my fellow users, we never found the cause of the problem but close session and reopen fixed it for a few days we just learned to live with it as an indicator that we have been using the program for too long a session and it needed us to go for a coffee break while it reloaded and took and electronic coffee break too.... it was never a big deal as the icon worked so it may slow down work a tiny bit, but its a good indicator that mstn needs a reload anyway.

Delete Key only in Microstation not working

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