Ctrl + backspace does not erase word

[lena_amb]

When writing captions, I often use the ctrl + backspace command to erase the full word behind the caret. However, Premiere does not recognise this command and instead makes a little box which I now also have to erase. I just jumped over from YT's captioning system due to its clunky nature, and this issue is the only one I have since the move. This is an issue sometimes in certain software, and I hope it's not a difficult fix 🙂 

1. Type some text in the captioning tool

2. Have the caret amongst the text

3. Press ctrl + backspace

- expected outcome: Word to the left of caret erased (and if keys are pressed down longer, the next word and so on)

- actual outcome: Little box character is typed to the left of caret

Premiere Pro Version 25.0.0 build 61

Windows 10 Enterprise
Version 22H2
OS build 19045.5011

[AnnikaKoenig]

Hi @lena_amb ! Interesting request! I'm on the team who would work on this feature. Do you need this often? What are the cases where you need this?

[lena_amb]

Thank you for replying 🙂

Rambling context: I have recently received the task of making sure all video lectures ever streamed by my employer have captions. This is due to new EU accessibility laws demandig all video material on major companies' websites have captions/subtitles. Some have auto-generated captions already, some dont - for the former case there are often repeated or misspelled/wrong words which need to be erased, so there's a lot of erasing going on.

I have worked with audio trancriptions for years in word processors, so it is second nature to me to be using ctrl + backspace for erasing the latest word since it's standard in most software these days (the only examples I can come up with that don't are actually other Adobe products...). I use it all the time - probably every five minutes if not more! It's quite annoying having to move the caret around just to erase a word.

There are enough people having this issue that there are home-made workarounds. I hadn't been using my work computer (which only the IT dept can install anything on) I would use a workaround like the one presented in a comment here: one https://www.reddit.com/r/premiere/comments/kgdtf5/niche_issue_using_ctrlcmd_backspace_on_windows_vs/

[R Neil Haugen]

Annika,

This is one of several "basic text editing" type things that would be 1) unified behavior for text editing across many applications and 2) a great speed-booster when doing captions/subtitle corrections.

Improving the text editing options, which are still pretty basic, would be huge for those of use doing this.

And as the OP notes, this is now required in the EU, and will be other places. Anyone doing YouTube wants captions/subs also.

[GB3-]

If you download "AutoHotKey" and run this script, you can hold ctrl and backspace and it'll work perfectly!! (To run the script all you do is open your tray at the bottom right in Windows, then right click on the AutoHotKey app and select "edit script, then it'll take you to the notepad app, and simply type in the command below then Ctrl+ S to save the script. Next, simply reload the script from the tray this time and it should work perfectly in PR!)

Script (Just copy and paste the words below and put in the notepad for AutoHotKey):

#HotIf WinActive("ahk_exe Adobe Premiere Pro.exe")
^BS::Send("^+{Left}{Del}")