My collegue's computer has started acting very strangely - she will be in the middle of typing something in Word or Notepad or Dreamweaver or Excel, and suddenly each new letter will start appearing to the LEFT instead of the right of the preceeding letter. Sometimes this will happen mid-word, for example: She types AUTUMN It comes out as AUNMUT (The AUT come out correctly, then after the T, the next U appears to the left of the T, then the M appears to the left of that U, and finally the N appears to the left of the M). This happens in both upper- and lower-case, regardless of whether CAPS or SHIFT are being used at the time. As mentioned it often starts mid-word. I've gone through accessibility options and they're all turned off. I've scanned with Spybot and MS Anti-Spyware and Nortons 2004 and they detected nothing. I've gone into regional and language options and everything is set to English (New Zealand), with the keyboard set to English (United States). The key combination for switching languages is ALT+SHIFT (a combination my workmate never presses). This problem seemingly started one day out of nowhere, even though my collegue has had her computer, and it's worked fine, for over a year. Can anyone help?

your collegue's typing to fast and has typos???? :S

Haha.. Umm, NO. I've seen it with my own eyes - she is definitely not making typos. Any other ideas smart guy? :P

Jet, the first thing I'd try (since you already scanned the machine) would be connect another keyboard and see if that helps. There are several possibilities here, but the two that come to my mind are a bad keyboard, or a faulty keyboard controller. If you're using a PS2 keyboard, and another one does the same thing, try a USB keyboard. Soylent Green is PEOPLE!

I don't think Seth was being a 'smart guy'. It's hard to imagine a PC problem causing something like that to happen.

Is the "collegue's computer " a Desktop or Laptop? If it's a Desktop PC's keyboard that mistypes, and the problem is solved by 'switching to another Keyboard (PS/2 or USB)' as suggested by Jennifer SUMN, I would recommend to perform a thorough cleaning of the Desktop Computer's Keyboard. M

Thank you all for your help - my collegue's not at work today, but I'll have her try another keyboard tomorrow and see if that helps. It is a PS2 keyboard, on a PC (not laptop). Regards, Jet