On 2 Jun 2000, 18:08, Katie Andrews wrote:
> Every so often, the most annoying thing happens: my tab key won't tab.
> Rather, it acts like some sort of hot key (if I understand the term
> correctly) and when pressed, flicks me between my open document and the
> Word opening page where I see all my files. How can I stop this from
> happening? Dammit, I just want to tab! ;)
>
> Thanks and cheers, Katie, who wants to tab, but doesn't drink it with a
> capital T ;)
Your question is not really topical, but I am going to bail you out and
we'll turn this into a SeeknFind experience. :-)
You may be sober, but you might have a drunk thumb that sorta hangs
down on your ALT key as you press the TAB key. :-)grin
ALT + TAB is generally the switch apps or screens function.
Or maybe you are accidently pressing some other key in combination with
the TAB key.
If that is not it, then from the top menu bar click:
Tools | Customize...
Then in each tab (Toolbars, Commands, Options) you will see a Keyboard
button at the bottom. Click that button and just looksee if you have
your TAB key doing something funky you don't want it to do.
You might consider posting that question to one of these USENET
newsgroups:
microsoft.public.office.misc
microsoft.public.word.newusers
I went to CNet's www.help.com and poked around and found another
question similar to yours. I get the idea this problem is "un bug."
http://www.help.com/
Try this the next time it happens. Bang on your ALT key by itself
several times. If that does not give you a fix right there, then save
all your data -- save all your work and shut down and reboot your
system. That will surely fix you up.
BTW...are you one of those slobs that eats right over their keyboard
and get's crumbs and foodstuffs down their keys -- gumming and gunking
up their keyboard? :-)
Alan (...one of those slobs.)
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