Backspace doesn’t work in Visual Studio

visual studio 2010

I keep getting a very annoying problem in Visual Studio. When I try to delete some text by pressing backspace it doesn't work. Why is this? What is going on? Sometimes I have to close and open Visual Studio to make this problem go away but I just tried that right now and it didn't work. Backspace works in Notepad in case you are wondering.

Best Answer

In Visual Studio go to:

Tools 
Options
Environment
Keyboard
  1. Find "Edit.DeleteBackwards" command.
  2. In "Use new shortcut in:" dropdown select "Text Editor".
  3. In "Press shortcut keys:" click backspace so it would show "Bkspce"
  4. Click "OK".

Backspace should start working for you again.

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