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From: todd@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Todd Ogasawara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Microsoft Word 4.0 & Toshiba portables
Keywords: Word Toshiba text blocking
Message-ID: <2034@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 10 Jul 88 22:19:30 GMT
Organization: University of Hawaii
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I found out yesterday that some of the Microsoft Word keyboard text
selection/blocking commands do not work on the T1000 (and the T1200 too, I
hear).  Here is the problem.  On every other computer I use (the
Standard-286 from PC Source, the HP Vectra ES/12, and the NEC Multispeed),
you can select blocks of text using the SHIFT- combinations.
E.g., Shift-End will block the text from where the cursor is to the end of
the line, Shift-rightarrow will block from the current position to the
character to the right, etc.  This did not work at all on the T1000.
However, other text selection commands -- Shift-F6, F7, F8, F9, F10 -- work
ok.  I suspect there is some sort of problem in the way the Toshiba
portables scan the keyboard.  Has anyone found a fix for this problem?

I am replacing my NEC Multispeed with a Toshiba T1000 soon to reduce the
weight of the stuff I tote around with me and it is important that
Microsoft Word works with the T1000.

-- 
Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii Faculty Development Program
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