How To Forward Delete Text On Your Mac - IDownloadBlog

Want to forward delete on Mac rather than delete the text backward? In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to delete text from left to right (instead of the usual right to left) with a couple of simple keyboard shortcuts.

I constantly use my Mac for typing documents, and sometimes I make mistakes; I’m only human. To fix them, I use the delete key on my keyboard to go back and retype what I had messed up on, and the cursor slowly works its way backward in the text so I can start over. But what if you wanted to forward delete rather than delete text backward? Is it possible? You’d better believe so!

Forward delete text on Mac

Rather than backspacing, forward deleting will allow you to delete text from left to right rather than from right to left, as you may be accustomed to.

To forward delete, just press and hold the fn (function) key on your keyboard while you press the delete key, and your cursor will delete text in the opposite direction that it usually does without pressing the fn key.

Another way you can forward delete text on your Mac is by using the control + D keys on your keyboard.

Both methods work in any app, whether it’s one of Apple’s apps or third-party software you’ve downloaded from the internet. Now that I know about it, I use it quite often in Microsoft Word and in my Mac’s messaging apps like Messages.

For someone like me who does a lot of writing professionally or for leisure, or for students who need to go back and revise their essays for school, being able to click in the middle of the body of text somewhere and either delete forward or backward is an invaluable ability that can come in handy to make text-editing easier.

Do you think you’ll use forward delete on Mac in the near future?

Check out next:

• How to type accents on a Mac keyboard
• How to type superscript or subscript on Mac