In another case, after one House member criticized three others on the floor and later removed the remarks from the printed record, the House Administration Committee appointed a panel to study the process for deleting text.

The Backspace key will not delete text if Overtype (F5) is switched on.

Their purpose is to let you delete text safely or to move it around one document or between several.

By far the most frustrating result of this came when I tried to delete text by holding down the Backspace key, as the delay always meant I deleted a few more words than I intended.

For example deleting text from the middle of one paragraph across several other paragraphs and ending in a final paragraph would need to use three separate elements.

The backspace is distinct from the delete key, which in paper media for computers would punch out all the holes to strike out a character, and in modern computers deletes text following it.

Delete text and replace with the following:

Gesture-based editing symbols for insert, delete, move text and so on would be included, and any inserted or altered text could be handwritten and recognised.

Finally, I see that among the Manzella amendments you have accepted, quite rightly, an amendment to delete text.

Is there any way to delete text while going forward, as with the Delete key on a PC keyboard?