Excel – Strange behavior of MS Excel finding origin of ctrl+shift+backspace keyboard shortcut

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While answering Keyboard shortcut to delete a word at a time in a cell, I found that a shortcut CTRL + SHIFT + Backspace is working for me to delete one word left to cursor position.

However, when I tested this shortcut on another system with the same version of MS Office installed, this shortcut didn’t work. Also, I didn’t find any documentation from Microsoft about this shortcut.

To identify what is causing this shortcut to work, I reset all customizations, deactivated all add-ins and closed AutoHotKey. But this shortcut is still working.

What else can be done to identify what is causing this shortcut to work.

Here are version/build details of MS Office installed on my system..

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List of processes running on system when I tested shortcut.

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Best Answer

Today I took a system, formatted it and installed Win 10 Enterprise. First software I installed was MS Office 365 (latest version downloaded with web installer). And it turned out the Ctrl + Shift + BackSpace is still deleting whole word at left side of cursor.

Though I didn't find any documentation to support this; but it seems that this feature is added in MS Excel. I am using MS Office 365 Pro Plus 32-bit (Version 1810).

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