Keyboard 4000

Occasionally I hit a key or key combo on the internet in a window or form and suddenly I'm in overtype mode. I haven't hit any of te upper f keys. I don't see anything lower on the keyboard that might do this.

 

We have an unexplained problem where I work, where chunks of typing get selected/highlighted for no apparent reason (Win XP SP2). I have not worked on it myself, but was told a workaround is to press each of the Shift keys, the Ctrl keys and the Alt keys.

Don't ask me why

 

interesting

That's interesting but not surprising. Do you press each one individually? It seems like it is something similar that caused the issue while I typed (too fast).

 

Tap a few times individually, but you can try both sets together.

 

found something

I read that if the overtype button is on in Word you press it twice, even though it looks like part of the decoration and not a button. If that doesn't work you press the insert key twice. Now who the hell would guess that? And we thought Microsoft was in charge of cyberspace.

 

I could think of a few terms, but "in charge of" is not one of them

Mmmm, now that you mention it, I think I have come across an "overtype" setting somewhere. Thanks.