Computer keyboard problem

That's a good thought, Brian, thanks, but it turned out not to be a purely Word issue: the problem is now solved.

Now sorted, Brian, thanks: it was due to a a peculiarity of Word, a program not exactly known for such things.

And indeed, as you might have seen from another post, it turned out to be a peculiarity of Word.

I do wish that WordPerfect had become the industry standard. It has oddities of its own but at least they're logical oddities.

Yes, we have several of those, I've worn out (or scratched off) one letter on mine but that's not a big issue really.

That type of "flatflex" cable usually has some form of (weak, easily breakable) latch.

that's the switches. I am nore concerned as to whether the key caps last out

They are not two shot moulded, but they are laser engraved

Is it definitely the key itself not working? I recall there's some faff assigning macros to keys and sometimes i've done it unsuccessfully due to the not entirely intuitive process.

This one (IBM style) is also over 25 years old and just fine. Most soft touch ones don't last anything like as long. I've replaced the one on my most recent laptop. At about 5 years old.

Oh, good grief. UNknown...

So go on, tell us what it was in Word.

You sure he had not made a macro that did nothing and hence it was behaving correctly grin. Brian

It *was* the industry standard, but they botched moving to Windows and never managed a coherent office suite presentation in the way MS did.

Owain

since MS created both Windows and MS Office, that's hardly surprising.

There was more it than that. My department adopted Wordperfect but were told the corporate policy was to use MS products. I think this was at the time of Win 3.1

I think it is. My ancient IBM style clunky keyboard still has perfect lettering. Because it is engraved and filled. Most modern ones simply printed.

Apparently, macros saved as part of the Normal template are not automatically applied to documents created before the addition, even though they used the Normal template themselves.

Perhaps it was a foolish expectation on my part that they would be, rather than an oddity, but Word has so many idiosyncrasies that I just thought my assumption would be right.

Yes, that's fair. When I started writing it was still in the days of DOS and I remember comparing my trusty software with the new Windows version and not caring for the changes.

JOOI which version of Word? And is this AutoOpen or AutoClose or....?

"JOO"? And it's Word 2003.

I've never used either. This is Alt + F then O.

Sorry. "Just Out Of Interest".

My mistake. Autopen and AutoClose are special names you can give to macros if you want them to be run automatically when you open and close docs.

If you mean that when you save a new macro to normal.dot you cannot run it from a previously created document then I never met that with 2003 which I used to use with a /lot/ of macros. But as you're now sorted I'll put that down as a rare example of my being lucky.