Hi Ian, > She has not been highlighting mis-spelled words and retyping. I have > obviously been delinquent in not explaining the advantages of this to her.
I feel this is the cause of the problem your wife is experiencing, as it doesn’t happen to you when type and delete by ‘overwriting’ the misspelt word. As Ray Forma explained in his reply & I concur it has never happened to me as I use ‘Highlight' the mistake and type, the mistake is replaced. No hitting delete or deleting back to the mistake. If your wife wishes to delete text by hitting the delete key all the time … give her a typewriter! Then you will really be in trouble ;-) Cheers, Ronni On 05/02/2011, at 4:08 PM, Ian Reid wrote: > > Ronni > > Thanks for your comments > > On 5 Feb 2011, at 12:34 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > > > 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. > > Hi Ian, > > Does it happen if your wife just clicks on the misspelt word (to highlight > it) and then hits delete? > > She has not been highlighting mis-spelled words and retyping. I have > obviously been delinquent in not explaining the advantages of this to her. > > Why is she deleting more than just the missplet word? > > I should have written "by deleting its letters back to" > > What setting is selected for “Check spelling” in Mail > Preferences - > Composing? > > "As I type" > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 > 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm > > OS X 10.6.6 Snow Leopard > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > -- 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]>
