#How to delete using keyboard windows

I canвЂ™t tell you how many times this has helped me out and IвЂ™ve become accustomed to using it almost by the hour. YouвЂ™ll learn that Chromebooks have the вЂforward deleteвЂ™ functionality built-in and that it can be activated by pressing Alt+Backspace.

Once itвЂ™s open, you can search for вЂdeleteвЂ™. ThereвЂ™s also a shiny, new icon for it in your ChromebookвЂ™s launcher which you can access via the вЂ Everything buttonвЂ. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+? on your keyboard will pull up the keyboard shortcuts menu which shows you all of the key combinations you can become savvy to and show off to your friends and family, but in case you see the irony in pulling up keyboard shortcuts to learn about keyboard shortcuts using a keyboard shortcut, you can also access this menu via the Settings app under Device > Keyboard > View Keyboard Shortcuts. Unless you have a device with a number pad like the Acer Spin 15, you instead have had to resort to the Chrome OS keyboard shortcuts for hidden keys like this. If youвЂ™re looking for the delete key on your Chromebook, you may be realizing that it doesnвЂ™t exactly exist.

Once I discovered the delete key, I never went back (pun intended). Growing up, I would always just move to the end of the sentence with my mouse, click again, and backspace.

#How to delete using keyboard windows

On Windows and macOS, tapping on the delete key will delete text to the right of your text input cursor, while pressing the backspace key will delete text to the left.