Misspelled Words...Do you backspace the whole word and retype it

Weell, im prefect in evry waye, so i d'ont make speelling misteaks! Thenks for arskin, tho!

Hello Feona1962, I am not as good as you! I don't even realize when I misspelled the word. If I do, I will just go to the letter and redo it. I am very lazy, for your info *smiles* I am impatient too. I don't even preview my response and just press the 'post response' button and skip the tag *winks*

If I catch it in time I just go insert the letter and or take the letter out that doesnt nee to be there a lot easier than backspaceing all the way

Hello Feona1962!:-) I do it both ways. It depends on the situation I am into. If it's a single words, I'll delete to retype it. If there are two words wrong I'll delete both of them before typing them again. If, however, in the last two words, only second last is wrong, I'll direct my pointer to the specific letter to change it. Sometimes, I do find myself deleting the whole line, not because of spelling error but because it isn't making proper sense. So I'll delete the sentence and would write the new one. I also do editing when I have typed my response. There, if I see some error, I'll go to the word to correct it and will not delete my whole message.

I usually just change out the letter for the correct one. My mom does like you and I just stare at her like she's insane - to me it seems weird to delete a whole sentence for one word. I used to point out her spelling errors on certain places on line but now I don't because she started making me retype her posts. haha!

my method is "erase last letter, but when I do mistake several times at one word, better to delete whole word and start to wtrie it again :-D)"

Actually what I do is delete the whole word and go back and retype it all but sometimes I have to actually look up the word cause I know it's wrong.. Even after typing it twice if it don't look right..

I mostly backspace, because when I try to do the one letter, the whole word will get deleted most of the time anyways.

Do you mean I am not the only one who does that? I will go back and retype the whole word, although sometimes I just go back to the mistaken letter. However, now that I have the spelling correction, I can just select the right word, that is, if it is the right word and not something like it. I haven't done to a whole sentence yet, because well I am a touch typist.

I only backspace to correct the error, I don't delete the whole word! It'd be a waste of time to delete the entire word.

No not crazy at all LOL I backspace too, its easier for me anyways. Trying to highlight the letter that is incorrect takes a little bit of doing and sometimes I end up messing it up in the first place, so backspace is faster and easier for me!

I do the same thing....lol.... i dunno why, i just do.

I use my mouse to go to where I have to go to correct. I have to say I have noticed a similar behaviour in some older individuals. It must have to do with the old typewriters where you had the manually go back all the way to your mistake.

i always catch myself doing this too.its a habit that i got myself into and sometimes my husband will ask what are you doing,and he will call me backspace happy.so i guess we can start our own group the backspace queens lol.at least i know there is alot more people that do this and im not crazy lol.

Im glad to know Im not the only crazy one doing that. Thats what I do to. LOL Ive always done it that way.LOL

If it's a long word I backspace but if it's a short one I just retype the whole word.

I assume you are referring to correcting a mis-spelled word you have typed on a computer. There is always the mouse to point to the incorrect word or letter. Either I point to the character, or I will just hightlight the word or sentence and then type it over. At times, I do backspace to remove the letters. I always do backspacing when sending sms on my handphone :P

yeah, sometimes it's faster to just hit backspace all the way than to get the mouse and accurately target for the letter. it's not that crazy dear we all do it. in fact, I just did myself when I had an extra space between w and e for we!!

OMG I thought I was the only one who does this. It is easier to just go and fix the letter but I find myself backspacing to fix it. Why is it that we do this? I guess I have to do things the long way.It is a crazy thing to do but I just do it.