Are Apple keyboards, with only a delete key, less efficient in making deletions than conventional keyboards with both a backspace and a delete key?

I have been using a Windows desktop at home and my office. Although I have never had a laptop, I have been planning to buy an Apple laptop for use when I travel. However, I recently used an Apple and found its keyboard, in one particular way, to be inferior to the standard keyboards that I have been accustomed to using. Do you agree?

A conventional keyboard has two keys to make deletions. The backspace key deletes characters to the left of the cursor. The delete key deletes characters to the right of the cursor. In contrast, the Apple keyboard has only one key to make deletions. It is the delete key and it deletes characters to the left of the cursor. It appears that if I want to delete characters to the right of the cursor, there is no way to do that directly and simply. Am I correct about that? I must either use a second key or I must first highlight the text and then delete it.

Using a non-Apple conventional keyboard, it is also possible to delete an entire word and one adjacent space in only two strokes by using a combination of the control key and the delete key. The same can be done in the other direction using the control key and the backspace key. How would these two types of deletion most efficiently be done with an Apple keyboard?

The reality seems to be that two keys to delete can operate more efficiently, in more directions, than only one (Apple). Do you agree that the Apple keyboard is less efficient in making deletions than the conventional keyboard when using Word software? What is the best way to get around that inefficiency in a MacBookPro? If there is no way around it, should this discourage me from getting an Apple since I do lots of word processing and deletions?

Does the Apple keyboard have any advantages over the conventional keyboard that I should be aware of?

• Asked by Robert J from Granger
• 29-Feb-2012
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The one delete key moves left, is there a single keystroke way to delete right with this keyboard?

Other larger keyboards have a second delete key that will delete to the right, but I have not yet found a way to do it on this keyboard with a single keystroke.

• Asked by Phil M from South Lake Tahoe
• 24-Nov-2009
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Does the delete button also function as a backspace button?

Some delete buttons only work purely as a delete button. That is- you have to put the cursor behind the word you are deleting. So in the precious sentence I would have to put the cursor over the n to delete the g. So, does the delete button work as a backspace button when typing or a purely delete button?

• Asked by Barbra P from Canton
• 6-Mar-2011
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Apple Bluetooth keyboard---special function keys for iPad 3?

I have seen a good answer to a question about getting a list of function keys for the Apple Bluetooth keyboard---but it seems to address only using the keyboard with a Mac (laptop). Is there a list of special function keys that work with an iPad 3? I am particularly interested in which special function keys (if any) there are that work with an iPad 3 that one could not find on a non-Apple keyboard (such as a Motorola wireless keyboard, that works fine with entering text such as letters, numbers, and symbols). In other words what---in terms of function or navigation keys---makes the Apple Bluetooth keyboard better than other Bluetooth keyboards?

• Asked by James B from Olympia
• 9-Jul-2012
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Can the iPad specific keys from the iPad Keyboard Dock be remapped to the Apple wireless keyboard?

The iPad keyboard dock has keys for iPad specific features. Is that functionality completely lost when using the bluetooth keyboard?

• Asked by Frank I from Easton
• 5-Apr-2010
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• Asked by Kitwat K from West Palm Beach
• 21-Oct-2009
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• Asked by Christy B from Fort Collins
• 21-Mar-2010
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• Asked by Adam B from Juneau
• 18-Mar-2012
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• Asked by Richard N from Oro Valley
• 31-Mar-2013
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colour of the key board

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• Asked by Thenjiwe M
• 15-Oct-2012
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