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Thread ID: 33789	2003-05-25 21:52:00	Characters go AWOL while I type	robo (205)	Press F1

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147465	2003-05-25 21:52:00	Ever since I started using a new machine with WIndows XP and Office XP, I notice that now and again certain characters (usually letters) don't appear until I type something else. I can sit and watch and nothing happens then I carry on and the missing letters pop up. I think it might be expecting foreign characters or something. It's probably something really obvious but I have trawled around and can't see any clues. Happens mostly in Word and Outlook (using word as editor, which I morally disapprove of, but haven't got around to turning it off). It doesn't seem to be certain words. I just typed about 200 words to see if it would replicate and it wouldn't. Any suggestions? robo. PS answer this and I might give you a prize.	robo (205)
147466	2003-05-25 22:01:00	It's not the old "keyboard not set to US thing, is it? Though I thought that only affected the quotation marks. In XP the keyboard language should be left as the default (US - English), otherwise it does funky things like not showing quotation or tilde marks until you press another key.	honeylaser (814)
147467	2003-05-25 22:06:00	No, I don't think it is that. Set to US keyboard. It's weird. Bet the thing doesn't do it now so I can't tell when I try to fix it. robo.	robo (205)
147468	2003-05-25 22:35:00	Are you using the correct keyboard drivers? Is your keyboard wireless?	honeylaser (814)
147469	2003-05-25 22:41:00	I get that sometimes when my machines are to busy to deal with rendering text. I type away, and nothing happens on screen, then pop! there it all is. Most annoying. Upgrading my video card seemed to remove the problem on my Linux box, transferring just about every task from my windows box to the Linux box seemed to fix it with the windows box. Perhaps some background task is eating your computers grunt?? .Clueless	Clueless (181)
147470	2003-05-25 23:05:00	nope, cord is attached.	robo (205)
147471	2003-05-25 23:06:00	I don't think so. Usually they appear when I type another character, but if I sit and watch nothing happens, so it is like it is expecting some funny foreign character keypress or something. robo. (hasn't done it since I posted this, dammit)	robo (205)
147472	2003-05-25 23:14:00	That's an interesting problem robo, and I suffer from it too on Old faithful (W98, P166, 256MB, Legacy keyboard circa 1994, Word 2000). It is not there all the time though, and only seems to happen in Word, not Works or Publisher. I find it quite frustrating but haven't been able to identify a cause. I originally thought it might be a lack of processing power :^O but it happens regardless of how many applications are active at the one time. It is fair to say though that most are not using processor power. I have tried when NAV was running a scan, and also when Adaware was scanning but didn't reach any conclusions. I await your final solution with interest, because, like the farmer whose dunny blew down in the storm, I have nothing left to go on.:D Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
147473	2003-05-26 00:11:00	Okay, a development. It's done it again on my name. I type Rob at the end of an email and only R appears until I hit the space or enter. But sometimes the o will appear. Then the cursor moves a second space, and then everything appears when I am done. But then I tried a new email and it was fine, then replied to an F1 email and it was fine, then replied to the email where it occured again, and it did it, but not consistently. And if it hasn't appeared, it does when I click onto another application. It's very weird. robo.	robo (205)
147474	2003-05-26 00:18:00	Would it happen to be like a similar issue my friend has... Brand new HP PC types the letter a then an apostrophe and it comes up with the letter a with an apostrophe above it I think it's waiting to see if you'll hit the next combination to easily make a special character. Im sorry but Im not sure how to turn it off... Try typing an a then an apostrphe in word and see if it does it. Do same with the letter e instead. Hope this helps Chill.	Chilling_Silently (228)
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