Ian, I assume that your wife and you are using Mail 4.4 under MacOS 10.6.6.
This has never happened to me and I have been using this combination, and their predecessors, for several years. However, I seldom delete back to a mistake. Instead, I highlight the mistake, and then immediately start typing. Word processors, including email programs, regard a sequence of highlighted text characters as a very wide cursor, so they put the new typing where this 'cursor' is, overwriting the mistake. Younger computer users tend to use this method, but older users still think they are using a mechanical typewriter, so they have to backspace to the mistake. Once a user becomes proficient at using a mouse, it is usually much more efficient to type everything, then highlight the mistakes and overtype. However, that demands good memory, so if you think that you will forget where the mistakes are, then you should highlight and overtype more often. Note that selecting and immediately overtyping, without the wasteful and superfluous step of deleting, makes it much more likely that you will notice the wrong selection and then won't delete that wrong selection. If you have to use the keyboard, use the arrow keys and the Shift key to highlight the offending text, and then overtype, again without deleting. On 05/02/2011, at 12:03 PM, Ian Reid wrote: > > Good morning all. > > This posting will get me into trouble, one way or another, but here goes. My > wife has been complaining, on and off, for some weeks that our iMac core 2 > duo has been playing up. She loses text intermittently when correcting typos > in her outbound emails on the fly. This has never happened to me and, up till > now, I have retained the right to have, if not express, a different opinion. > > This morning I watched the screen as she attempted to correct a mis-spelled > word by deleting back to and including the error. Momentarily the whole line > turned blue and then instantly disappeared as she continued to hit Delete. > > Any suggestions as to why this is happening will be gratefully received. > > Ian Reid Regards, Ray Forma Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
