Re: Keyboard not responding in Word & Excel 97

From: Charles Kenyon (msnewsgroup_at_remove.no.spam.addbalance.com)
Date: 05/03/04 

Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 10:03:32 -0500

That would not apply in Office 97. It doesn't require activation. 

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Charles Kenyon
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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"RWN" <NotLikely@mts.net> wrote in message
news:eADbr9yLEHA.3712@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> This is further to my previous (not too helpful) response and the
> following are quotes found in other messages in this ng using  (in OE6)
> "Find->Message in this Folder" -"keyboard" .
>
> <quote
> #1>----------------------------------------------------------------
> Have you activated your copy of Word and PictureIt? Check under the Help
> menu. If there is a command there about "Activate" try it. If you have a
> version that doesn't require activation there won't be such a command.
> If
> you have already activated, it will tell you that.
> -- 
> Charles Kenyon
> See the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
> <endquote
> #1>----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> <quote #
> 2>--------------------------------------------------------------------
> I was having the same and I found a trojan virus on my computer.  To get
> rid of it I went to this web
> sitehttp://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.tof
> ger.html    I followed the instructions near the bottom and it all
> started working fine again.
>
> Give it a shot and hopefully it will work for you too.
> <end quote
> #2>---------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------
>
> HTH
> -- 
> Regards;
> Rob
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "RWN" <NotLikely@mts.net> wrote in message
> news:uu$HB2yLEHA.1272@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > This probably won't help much but this question was asked before and
> > responded to as follows;
> >
> > <quote>
> > It's been reported that there is a virus that causes this.
> > --
> > Suzanne S. Barnhill
> > Microsoft MVP (Word)
> > Words into Type
> > Fairhope, Alabama USA
> > Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org
> > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
> > newsgroup so
> > all may benefit.
> >
> > "Myheck" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:CA23F26D-5C26-46C3-A2C6-42673F187C25@microsoft.com...
> > > My Word program (Office XP) won't type. I can save, print, cut and
> > paste,
> > and cursor blinks. I can't type letters or get any use out my keys. I
> > installed a Word 97 as well, and it does the same thing. I can do all
> > this
> > on other applications, like the internet, so it's not my keyboard. Any
> > ideas
> > will be appreciated.
> > <end quote>
> >
> > I would assume that there may still be a virus resident (or at least
> the
> > remnants of one!).
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > Regards;
> > Rob
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> > "Elisabeth" <elsbett@msn.com> wrote in message
> > news:6abd01c42ec2$513c5ca0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> > > Hello, We are running Office 97 SR1 under Windows 2000
> > > version 5 on an IBM NetVista (single user).
> > >
> > > We've had many viruses recently, cleaned up with Norton
> > > Antivirus.  After installing Quickbooks and running Norton
> > > Antivirus (which found 10 viruses), the keyboard no longer
> > > works in either Word or Excel, though it works in all
> > > other applications.
> > >
> > > In Word, we can use Home/End, Page Up/Down, and the INS
> > > key even turns on and off the insert mode.  But when we
> > > type any letters or numbers, there is no response in Word
> > > or Excel, though I do see disk access.  I can cut and
> > > paste, but not type any new text.
> > >
> > > Any clues, anyone?  Help!
> >
> >
>
>

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