Re: Text going bananas! Help

Claire wrote:
In certain programmes my text had gone bonkers! I tyoe and it goes backwards then forwards then backwards again. Any ideas?

Try Control Panels, Date/Time/Language/etc, Regional and Language Options. Languages tab, Details button. Advanced tab, "Turn off advanced text services".

If that doesn't do it, you're in nuke territory and will have to start with what Ted Ziegler said; all I can do is wish you luck.

If it does work, you could just leave text services shut off and not worry about it; if you don't need to enter Arabic or Hebrew or whatever then that's the route I'd recommend.

Otherwise, if you're seeing the trouble in older programs, you'll have to manually toggle it each time, or set up a special no-text-services user account to run those programs, or pray there are updates for them; if they're newer programs, dig around in help and google to find out how the text services work so you can get them configured properly for your needs.

hth,
Jim
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