ahduncu
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Post by ahduncu on Oct 6, 2018 22:33:22 GMT -5
When I was trying to start a new thread (about Firefox) part way through my typing, the whole message disappeared! I had to restart the thread and this time the font decided to print in italics even though I changed it back to normal default font, it kept changing to italics. Is this the fault of my computer is there a glitch in your web site?
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Post by budgall on Oct 6, 2018 22:46:48 GMT -5
I would lean toward a computer issue on your end. I would recommend the fix that fixes a lot of computer problems, reboot your computer.
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Post by jholland1964 on Oct 7, 2018 8:28:41 GMT -5
We've had no other complaints of something like this and I checked at the ProBoard forum, since we are a ProBoard Forum, and could find no recent complaints of problems like this there either. I lean with budgall that it is something with your computer OR your keyboard. You may be hitting some key combinations accidentally that can cause things like this to happen. You could be resting your hand or finger on the ctrl key without realizing it and then just hitting a specific letter along with it can certainly cause things like this to happen. For instance ctrl-z will delete all the text written and ctrl-i will cause the text to become italic.
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You also mentioned you were attempting to create a thread regarding Firefox, would this be a New Firefox thread or when you were creating the previous one you had earlier in the week?
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ahduncu
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Post by ahduncu on Oct 7, 2018 11:23:25 GMT -5
It was the previous one, not a new one.
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Post by jholland1964 on Oct 7, 2018 11:31:03 GMT -5
It was the previous one, not a new one. Thank you. Have these problems happened anywhere else? For instance when writing an email, posting at another website, writing a letter?
Is this a laptop and if so do you use the onboard keyboard or an external keyboard?
Even if it is not a laptop have you changed keyboards whether desktop or laptop?
Have you changed the actual location of the computer?
New mouse? New mouse pad? New desk? New chair? New light?
Any number of things can cause something like this. You have to eliminate them all. I can say though without a doubt doing a search at the ProBoard help forum there were no complaints of this nature that I could find at all and the search went back to 2015. I stopped after that.
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ahduncu
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Post by ahduncu on Oct 7, 2018 13:08:50 GMT -5
Nothing has changed at all. Perhaps it is the fault of my clumsy work as well as when I was youngerfingers - they don't
The above sentence is a sample of what happens - I think it's something I am hitting while typing but I don't know what. The sentence should have read, "Nothing has changed at all. Perhaps it is the fault of my clumsy fingers, they don't work as well as they did when I was younger" I am using a HP laptop and typing on the built in keyboard. I will try using an external keyboard and see what happens, I have a feeling that the larger keyboard will be much better, I use it when I am typing a long letter.
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Post by jholland1964 on Oct 7, 2018 13:38:25 GMT -5
Laptop built in keyboards can certainly be "tricky". I have a smaller laptop that I use when traveling so the keys are not as widely spaced as the one's are on the larger laptop I use daily. When I begin using the travel computer I have a hard time getting used to using the smaller spaced keyboard and make lots of typing errors. If I use it a week or so when I come home and go back to my larger one then I have trouble again for several days until I get acclimated to using that larger keyboard again.
Give that external keyboard a try for awhile and see what happens and be sure to let us know.
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Post by bigtoe on Oct 7, 2018 17:11:01 GMT -5
Nothing has changed at all. Perhaps it is the fault of my clumsy work as well as when I was youngerfingers - they don't
The above sentence is a sample of what happens - I think it's something I am hitting while typing but I don't know what. The sentence should have read, "Nothing has changed at all. Perhaps it is the fault of my clumsy fingers, they don't work as well as they did when I was younger" I am using a HP laptop and typing on the built in keyboard. I will try using an external keyboard and see what happens, I have a feeling that the larger keyboard will be much better, I use it when I am typing a long letter.
Like the others, I feel it is a typing/hand positioning mistake that is occurring while you're typing .... think you hit the nail on the head in the red lines of your quoted reply above.... Laptop built in keyboards in conjunction with the touch pad cause all of us headaches of our own device at different times, resulting in mistyped words, missing letters, wrong spacing, missed capitalization.... on and on....  . A lot of the time, particularly if we have the laptop in our lap or at a desktop and we don't practice perfect/good posture and good hand positioning with palms up away from the touchpad we can inadvertently tap a wrong key or just brush our palm(s) against the touchpad. That results in moving the cursor or it can cause all kinds of headaches .... You'll know for sure if no similar problems are occurring while you are using a detached keyboard and mouse and don't find missing parts of sentences..... I get so frustrated using Windows laptop machines or on this Apple MacBook Pro laptop, my favorite spoken word is "Grrrrrrr" (word cleaned up for a public forum  ) when similar mistakes occur to me while using my laptops on my lap most of the time, and my posture or hand placement gets a little lazy and I mistakenly touch a wrong key or key combination or palm brushes the touchpad, so I can sympathize with you completely........ If you are a no look touch typer who keeps your eye on the screen to see what you are typing so you'll catch your mistake early, in Windows you can use the keyboard shortcut of " Control + Z" to undo an action.... holding down Control and then tapping the letter Z each time will let you go backwards one typing action at a time so you can erase some action enough times to get you back to where you "removed" part of your sentence. It will be resumed where you were when the accidental act occurred and your missing part of the sentence will be back and you can resume typing the sentence just as though you never made the mistake...... and you'll keep your curse words to a minimum.....  |
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Post by Paul D on Oct 16, 2018 15:18:27 GMT -5
In light of Reply #5 I'd guess the "insert" key may be involved - you're sometimes accidentally hitting it.
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. A lot of the time, particularly if we have the laptop in our lap or at a desktop and we don't practice perfect/good posture and good hand positioning with palms up away from the touchpad we can inadvertently tap a wrong key or just brush our palm(s) against the touchpad. That results in moving the cursor or it can cause all kinds of headaches .... You'll know for sure if no similar problems are occurring while you are using a detached keyboard and mouse and don't find missing parts of sentences..... I get so frustrated using Windows laptop machines or on this Apple MacBook Pro laptop, my favorite spoken word is "Grrrrrrr" (word cleaned up for a public forum 
) when similar mistakes occur to me while using my laptops on my lap most of the time, and my posture or hand placement gets a little lazy and I mistakenly touch a wrong key or key combination or palm brushes the touchpad, so I can sympathize with you completely........ 
