Ray
Thanks for the comments. We are still not sure what has been the
problem but Margaret will use the' highlight the word and retype'
method in future. The problem has been intermittent so we will wait
and see.
Ian
On 5 Feb 2011, at 2:41 PM, Ray Forma wrote:
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
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