Shift and Holding Down Delete Not Working

[josh1974]

Hey everyone! 

When I am editing a video, I will usually hold down shift and hit delete to close the gap and then all of the other following clips move with the clip that is closing the gap.  That however, is no longer working.  Now when I hold down shift and hit delete, a white box appears where the minutes and seconds section is in the lower right box.  And since delete is also the period button (.), it just shows a period there.  Any help is much  appreciated.

Josh

[gerikp]

Have you gone in and checked your keyboard shortcuts to see if you have Close Gaps still mapped out to Shift+Delete?

[DeanUtian]

Can you right click in the gap and choose Ripple Delete and get it to work that way?

It could be that your audio track is blocking ripple delete. Could you give more information about what you have in the different tracks of your sequence?

[Ann Bens]

josh1974  wrote

And since delete is also the period button (.), it just shows a period there.

The period is default mapped to Overwrite.

But if Premiere is acting weird trash preferences.

FAQ: How to reset (trash) preferences.

[rodneyb56060189]

keyboards are not all the same. some have numbers on right side for doing fast number stuff. Some of those keys also have arrows, page down, end, period, etc.

If using that, turn off num lock maybe might work. test in any program you can type into. If you hit delete and see the period, toggle num lock. if you hit delete and see no period, you're good to go.