TECH: Re: HELP!!! OPEN OFFICE WRITER

Maybe your shift key was sticking. Next time try depressing and
releasing the shift keys, I've seen that resolve problems like this

René


2007/4/19, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>:
> Before taking too much trouble with this rant, check the last line :-)))
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> Does anyone know the ins and outs of this damn word-processing thing?
>
> I must have hit a wrong key combo-- no matter where I put the cursor, it
> selects the whole line (or more, if I move the cursor). But I can't copy the
> material, nor drag it-- that just selects more. If I try to type, the
> selected material deletes :-((((
>
> The last key I hit before it started doing this was "Page up", I was also
> using the find dialogue.
>
> It's also affected my email (MSN)-- when I click on a message title, it
> selects all the titles, and doesn't open anything. (And so I cant find the
> last msg from OO Help to get their address.....) It seems to have affected
> my Yahoo home page, too-- I can't scroll it. Perhaps it's a bug somewhere
> beside OO Writer??? IIRC, last time it also affected MS Word.
>
> It did this to me a week or two ago; it solved itself after several openings
> and closings of OO and various files.
>
> Absolutely maddening.
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 2mins. later: tout a coup, it has resolved itself again. WTF!!!! Situation
> back to normal...for now, at least, insh'Allah.  Any thoughts on what may be
> happening???
>

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