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unwanted highlighting in Word
Name: johnr Date: August 15, 2004 at 00:59:10 Pacific OS: 98SE CPU/Ram: 333MHz/198Mb
Comment:
Friend has Office XP installed. When doing anything in Word as soon as space or return are pressed the whole page becomes selected/highlighted & text therefore becomes unreadable. Only recently started happening. Have checked all options & nothing unusual stands out. No problem with Excel or OpenOffice. Have swapped mouse & keyboard to no effect. Any ideas anyone?
Name: seawatch Date: August 15, 2004 at 09:03:39 Pacific
Reply:
In outline view, clicking once to the left of a paragraph selects the entire paragraph instead of a single line.
Don't know if this is what's happening, but worth a shot.
Larry
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Response Number 2
Name: johnr Date: August 15, 2004 at 09:47:00 Pacific
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Thanks for reply. No, nothing to do with 'usual' Word methods - I've been using MSWord since v6 so I've got used to its quirks - this is a new one on me & I'm pretty sure it's hardware related.
"I know that I'm mad - I've always been mad..."
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Response Number 3
Name: seawatch Date: August 15, 2004 at 10:10:00 Pacific
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It'll be interesting to find out what happend.
Nothing like "lazy" thumb or something hitting a spacebar or key while your highlighting?
Larry
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Response Number 4
Name: johnr Date: August 15, 2004 at 12:21:06 Pacific
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Problem solved but not too sure why. While I was generally tidying up system I was updating drivers etc. The video was set to a generic driver so I rooted around & found the correct one & this seems to have cured it, but no idea why it would have reverted to a basic driver in the 1st place or why that would have affected Word.
"I know that I'm mad - I've always been mad..."
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Response Number 5
Name: seawatch Date: August 15, 2004 at 12:27:58 Pacific
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