Help understanding "delete and move"

Question

I've recorded a 20 minute Podcast, basically one long stream of me talking. I'm trying to figure out a way to cut out all the "ums" and "uhs", but moving the rest of the audio stream over so there isn't a big pause where I've cut out the audio.
The closest I can find to perhaps doing that is "delete and move" but it doesn't seem to work when I highlight the "um" waveform in the editing window. Delete and move isn't an available option there. If I just "delete" the section, it doesn't close the gap and I have to move the whole subsequent wave file manually to the right to close the gap.
Anyone have an idea how to make this a little easier?
Thanks!

Answer 1

I need to to this with my guitar recording input at times. You need to utilize the split and join tools. If you were to place the time-line at the beginning of the "um" or "uh" and command T to split the section which you highlighted green, then move the time-line to the end of the "um" or "uh" and command T as well making sure it is still bright green. Then click off the section to unselect green it and then click on the sectioned area and highlighting it, delete this section making sure this is the only area bright green to delete. Then bring the two sections together and join them. Joining requires that the two sections be touching and with bothe sections highlighted or selected, command J and now the deleted section is gone and the time differential with it. From here, play around with pause length and insert pause periods as will. This seems rather verbose but that is my way of explaining a purely visual thing.