How to Delete Wrapped Text in Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word is part of the Microsoft Office productivity suite of applications. Microsoft Word allows you to wrap text around images and other objects. Wrapped text can be difficult to select in Microsoft Word 2010. You can accidentally select the image around which the text is wrapped, so if you press "Delete," you delete the image as well as the text. To avoid selecting everything, you can use a simple trick that works in all versions of Microsoft Word.
Click and hold the mouse button after the first word in the wrapped text. The insertion cursor is placed after the word.
Drag the mouse until you select all wrapped text, except the first word, and release the left mouse button. If you attempt to select the first word, you can accidentally select the image and delete it.
Press "Delete" to delete the wrapped text. Only the first word remains and the insertion cursor is still placed after it.
Press the "Backspace" key -- the key with the left arrow -- several times until you delete the remaining word. The insertion cursor is now at the beginning of the text box and you can type or insert something else.
- You can also select all text after the first letter, but you can accidentally place the cursor a bit to the left and select the image instead.
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