Where is the Delete Key on the Keyboard???

Where is the Delete/ Del Key gone from the keyboard on Macs? Apple used to have it but now its gone. There are two (2) Enter keys but no Del key!!! How is it possible to edit text each time by going to the end of the line and then pressing Backspace? The key which is labeled Delete does not perform the action as performed on a standard PC keyboard instead it works as a Backspace. Is there a way to customize a key to perform Del function or is there a combination key to make that happen? and what is with 2 enter keys??

Hi,
sorry I don't know why.
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Why does the delete key on the keyboard go backward? How can I make it go the other way?

I'm used to a PC keyboard that enables me to delete characters from where my cursor it to the next space to the right. The keyboard I have with my Mac, alas, is frustrating for me to use because it goes backwards from what I am used to. Is there a fix to this? My PC keyboard has a backspace button in addition to the delete button, so it is very straightforward for me that way.

The delete key, if the cursor is placed mid sentence, will remove letters etc forwards from that cursor point. If you are deleting from the end of a sentence, the backward facing long arrow above the return key will delete backwards from that point.
For groups of letters or sentences, highlight them and press delete.
It is one of those situations where you should learn the new approach because the rest of the system is geared to it.
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I hit the delete key and the highlighted song on the playlist doesnt delete ??

In I tunes I hit the delete key and the highlighted song does not delete. I followed the exact steps from the manual ??????

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If you want to delete a song from a smart playlist, you can't do this directly. You need to either change the criteria for your smart playlist so that the offending song isn't selected any more, or else "uncheck" the song, and make sure that your smart playlist collects "checked songs only".
One easy-ish way to exclude songs from your smart playlist might be to change the rating, and make sure that your smart playlist excludes all songs with that rating. However, watch out that you don't end up with a combination of rules that end up excluding all songs so that the playlist is empty, or else including too many songs so that too many items match the criteria.
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The "delete Key" removes the character to the left, as a backspace key does, can this changed?

The "delete Key" removes the character to the left, as a backspace key does, can this changed?

Yes, hold the FN key down as you hit delete to delete from the right.

I bought this very nice iMac. The first time I ever use a Apple product. Can someone please tell me where the delete key is on the keyboard. I cannot think for one moment that Apple did not provide for such a key. Please help.

I bought this very nice iMac. The first time I ever use a Apple product. Can someone please tell me where the delete key is on the keyboard. I cannot think for one moment that Apple did not provide for such a key. Please help.

The delete key does a backward delete because it is the natural way to delete while typing. May not be to you and the millions of youngsters who grew up with windows computers. When you are typing and want to delete that which you just typed you are already at the end and you delete back to where you want to re-type. When you go back to a document and want to delete a selection, you have to go to the end of the selection instead of the beginning. it's just the way its always been done on macs. it takes some getting use to.
If you select text to be deleted with your mouse then the delete key deletes the selected text. same for either delete key method.
It is not convenient when you tab to fields in a form. That why fn-delete does a forward delete.
Macs have a couple of keyboards. The small "wireless keyboard" only has the (backward) delete (fn-delete forward). The larger "Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad" has both a Delete (backwards) key beside the = abd it has the "delete >" key in the groups with fn, home, end, Pg up and Pg dn. This keyboard is best for users who have switched from windows or are familiar with the windows forward delete.

Wheres the delete key on my macbook?

hi there,
i've just been trying to use shortcuts more often because they make life a **** of alot easier, but where is the delete key on my keyboard? i can see it on my step dads iMac keyboard but there isn't one on my macbook keyboard. is there a key i can press along with another to do the same command?
thanks alot
Tim

Thanks, lol - I hesitated before I hit the 'post message' box thinking to myself 'they have to know where a deleted key is?!' ...then thought to myself 'what the heck do I know about other keyboards anyway!'.
Now I know
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Since I must create a folder to send questionable emails I may read or refer to later, how do I change the action of the delete key so it'll be just as easy?

After recognizing and following the suggestions I skimmed in the Q&A, my trash is still being emptied against my wishes. Everything looked familiar involving settings, etc. I think and hope and will re-check that I've all the correct settings applied. I would like to verify; Do I have to really create a folder to send my email to instead of trash/delete if I want to view it later? If so that sucks, but I'll obviously work around it. My frustration with this matter over the years caused me to stop reading and here I am, agitated. I can probably figure out how to create a folder and MAYBE even figure out how to make it somewhat easier than it sounds to move the emails there. My biggest obstacle is learning how to program the delete key on my keyboard to send them there, because it's simply common sense to everyday users not to mention a terrible habit occurred over the many years of practicing to strike the delete key when a "I'll get to it later" email is highlighted AND without any worry knowing you can always find it in the trash because you know the last time the trash was emptied/permenantly deleted. Can you somehow make this a little more user friendly. It sucks to not be able to trust having an email when you go back to look for it. Can you imagine having to pay attention anything for longer than 5-7 seconds when you're trying to find that one email amongst possibly thousands in one of my in boxes because you're scared to death to delete anything that may be of value one day in the future, or not. Pretty please tell me I'm on the wrong track here and there's a simple solution and how to find it. And

IMHO, the mistake is to put anything in Trash if you think you'll ever want to look at it again. Do you ever "file" actual paper documents in the real Trash bin, down there on the floor?
However...
Your Trash folder may be on the email provider's server and subject to their housekeeping regime. Have a look at your account settings; if the account uses IMAP then you might try setting it to use a local Trash folder, for instance in your Local Folders account. That should put emptying of Trash under your control and safe from the whims of any third parties. But in my book, using Trash for persistent storage is perverse. Or as you might put it, it sucks.
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I tried that - but same result.

Hi, I would like to know how can I recover a document from pages that I didn't save anytime and instead of clicking the button save I clicked the delete button at the end. Is there any way to recover it?

Hi, I would like to know how can I recover a document from pages that I didn't save anytime and instead of saving the doc I clicked the delete button. Is there any way to recover it?

Regardless of application, the first step that I take is to save and name the current document — even if it has no content yet. With Pages, this good habit enables autosave. As you add content, your document revision history is restorable via the File Revert To menu. The delete key has the same document foreboding as only teaching a pet raven to speak "Nevermore."

Where is the DELETE key -- and I don't mean "backspace"

Every PC of any stripe that I have ever owned -- and we're talking a lot of machines in nearly 30 years of this -- has had two 'delete' keys.
One is a backspace key -- it erases characters in before the cursor. It's usually found above the enter/return key, where the backspace key used to be on those old-fangled typewriter machines.
The other key was a "delete" key -- which would erase characters that apper AFTER the cursor. There the backspace key would erase backwards, the delete key would erase forwards.
So, where is the DELETE key on a Mac keyboard? Is there some combination of keys that will serve that purpose? Or does somebody really think I'm going to move the cursor to the end of some place and delete backwards ALL the time?
I read in yesterday's Wall Street Journal that Steve Jobs doesn't like buttons, but this is ridiculous. It could, in fact be a fatal error... I've still got 10 days to take this thing back...
--PS

I don't suppose there is any kind of utility program that would let me re-map they keyboard, so that I could make, say, the "enter" key at the bottom into a "forward-delete" key (I never use that enter key, my hands are trained to use the "enter/return" key where it's always been on a typewriter -- yeah, I'm that old...)
Either buried on the Mac somewhere or a third party program that would let me do that? Would sure make the MacBook more liveable... I delete a LOT!
Thanks,
--PS

Where is the delete key??

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Just got a new Macbook 2.4 - there's no delete key. The backspace key is fine, but I miss the delete key.
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Sorry to sound like a complete idiot. However Ive had my macbook for a full day. First impressions are exceptional, however Ive only ever used DOS, Windows PCs over the last 13years, and this is completly new to me.
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Secondly, how do I uninstall apps? In Windows, it could be done via add/remove programs, however I have no idea what Im looking for to remove installed programs on the hdd.
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"Never install an application until you know how to uninstall it!"
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5324398?start=15&tstart=0

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