David,

It would be strange if backspace key has been ignored in such situation.

>I guess it depends. I'm not sure I'd ever attempted to use backspace to empty hilighted text like that, but I see that other textboxes outside VFP do behave that way.
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>>It was pointed to me by Roy in the Message #883571 that check for 'This.SelLength = 0' is also required.