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  • katzdvd
    Lord of Digital Video
    Lord of Digital Video
    • Feb 2006
    • 2198

    My typed words are being "ate"!

    Ok, I know this is a wierd one, but I have had this prob. off & on for a while now, & I am sure others have noticed it as well...

    When typing a letter, posting, etc.; if I notice that I have mispelled a word, or need to add punctuation, etc... if I go back into the typed message to fix it, as I am typing,

    instead of my corrections "pushing" the sentence ahead, it will instead "eat", or erase my sentences following the corrections!

    have done searches on it in the past on google, yahoo, etc., have never come up w/ anything on it...

    Doesn't happen all the time, only sometimes....Will do it in wordpad, emails, on the forums; seems to be in any text pgm.

    I know, it sounds "off the wall", but surely someone here has experienced this! What am I missing here?!?

    Stumped on this one... it's driving me crazy!!!!
  • LT. Columbo
    Demigod of Digital Video
    • Nov 2004
    • 10671

    #2
    this has indeed happened to me too, frickin annoying if writing a guide too! i don't know why either. i just stop, cut and paste the remaining text after the correction.
    "One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the 20th Century". Jack The Ripper - 1888
    Columbo moments...
    "Double Shock" "The Greenhouse Jungle" "Swan Song" FORUM RULES
    "You try to contrive a perfect alibi, and it's your perfect alibi that's gonna hang ya."
    (An Exercise In Fatality, 1974)


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    • jm1647
      An Eagles Fan, A MenuShrinker
      • Apr 2005
      • 3661

      #3
      When it happens hit the Ins (Insert) key on your keyboard and it will push your text ahead for ya

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      • LT. Columbo
        Demigod of Digital Video
        • Nov 2004
        • 10671

        #4
        shall try what the heck does this?
        "One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the 20th Century". Jack The Ripper - 1888
        Columbo moments...
        "Double Shock" "The Greenhouse Jungle" "Swan Song" FORUM RULES
        "You try to contrive a perfect alibi, and it's your perfect alibi that's gonna hang ya."
        (An Exercise In Fatality, 1974)


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        • jamoskeag3
          Digital Video Master
          Digital Video Master
          • Nov 2005
          • 1327

          #5
          "Insert" key on keyboard is a toggle switch.
          Push it one way and it acts as you'd expect.
          Push it the other way, and it acts the way explained in first post.
          Most annoying, until someone tells you the fix, which is very easy, thankfully.

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          • jm1647
            An Eagles Fan, A MenuShrinker
            • Apr 2005
            • 3661

            #6
            It toggles between insert and overwrite

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            • katzdvd
              Lord of Digital Video
              Lord of Digital Video
              • Feb 2006
              • 2198

              #7
              Thanks for the info., jm & jamo!

              Seems like I have been dealing w/ that one for years!!! I have never been able to come across the answer.

              I wonder if annoyances.org has anything on it - I had not checked there yet...

              i just stop, cut and paste the remaining text after the correction
              that's what I usually do! also, I will hit "enter" to gain a few free lines & then type my corrections & backspace to it.

              but the insert key solution sounds great!

              cheers!

              katz

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              • LT. Columbo
                Demigod of Digital Video
                • Nov 2004
                • 10671

                #8
                i learned a new thing too, ty also fellas
                "One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the 20th Century". Jack The Ripper - 1888
                Columbo moments...
                "Double Shock" "The Greenhouse Jungle" "Swan Song" FORUM RULES
                "You try to contrive a perfect alibi, and it's your perfect alibi that's gonna hang ya."
                (An Exercise In Fatality, 1974)


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                • katzdvd
                  Lord of Digital Video
                  Lord of Digital Video
                  • Feb 2006
                  • 2198

                  #9
                  100th post!!!

                  this is just a "vanity" post to get my 100th!!!

                  Hoorah!!!







                  I am honored to be a part of the forums!!!

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                  • Chewy
                    Super Moderator
                    • Nov 2003
                    • 18971

                    #10
                    typing pronlem is only in this forum tho, not in others

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                    • jamoskeag3
                      Digital Video Master
                      Digital Video Master
                      • Nov 2005
                      • 1327

                      #11
                      LT,
                      Yea, I know, its one of those little quirks, where a little help from your friends is quite handy.
                      I thinkk many of us have been there, and most glad to know the fix.

                      Chewy, thought it was universal prob

                      Katz, congrats
                      Last edited by jamoskeag3; 7 Jul 2006, 10:58 AM.

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                      • jm1647
                        An Eagles Fan, A MenuShrinker
                        • Apr 2005
                        • 3661

                        #12
                        Originally Posted by katzdvd

                        I wonder if annoyances.org has anything on it - I had not checked there yet...


                        @katz for ur 100th

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                        • katzdvd
                          Lord of Digital Video
                          Lord of Digital Video
                          • Feb 2006
                          • 2198

                          #13
                          From annoyances.org:
                          One of the stupidest designs in Microsoft Word is that it still recognizes the Ins (Insert) key on your keyboard and treats it the same way as early DOS wordprocessors did in the 1980s
                          that's progress for ya...

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                          • Chewy
                            Super Moderator
                            • Nov 2003
                            • 18971

                            #14
                            what's funny about this problem is i have found if i clear temps and cookies the problem disappears, very intermittant, never had it happen in another forum or email or pm's etc. sometime's I just copy what I have written and close IE and reopen then paste.

                            I figured it was my overclocking that was causing it!

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                            • jm1647
                              An Eagles Fan, A MenuShrinker
                              • Apr 2005
                              • 3661

                              #15
                              It comes in handy if ya hafta edit something and toggle the keys to push or overwrite IAW your need at that time. Like if ya wann add a word, or correct a spelling boo boo.

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