Mac's keyboard left to right Delete ?

When a PC person types a mistake they can delete letters from left to right or right to left using backspace or delete keys ! The Mac keyboard only has delete which deletes from right to left! How can a Mac person use the keyboard to delete from left to right ?

I don't know how old your Mac keyboard is, but all recent (last few years) Mac keyboards have had a forward-delete key. Under the F14 key, there's the help key, then below that is the forward delete key.
Interestingly, why would you post this queston in an iPhoto 6 discussion board? Oh well fortunately the question was simple enough.
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I am running a MacBook Pro on 10.5.8 using Microsoft Word 2008. My right arm has aching tendonitis and enabling my left hand to delete stuff would help a ton.
Thus, I desparately need a single-key (not function+key or command+key) that DELETES letters or words in Word, that sits on the far side of the keyboard. I'd give up fn, or `, or even capslock. **** even tab!
I've tried DoubleCommand. It will remap delete onto the CapsLock key but then only deletes a character every other key press (apparently only works when capslock turns ON). This *****.
KeyRemap4MacBook says it will remap ` to DELETE but that simply does not work in Word. It can also remap fn to Command_L but that also doesn't work (yes, I assigned Command_L to DeleteWord in Word's keyboard shortcuts).
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option by the name of Mouse Keys.
There also may be some other possibility, since there are folks
out there who have used two mice; and other set-ups. Even a
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• Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts:
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• How to turn Sticky Keys and Mouse Keys on or off:
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{An issue exists in assigning a key to do a different function, when some
other Application needs that key, as-is (or as-was) to perform tasks in it.}
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The topic has been discussed in these user boards before your post:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11668747
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