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From: daveg@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Dave Guggisberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Word For Windows
Message-ID: <101000065@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Aug 89 16:12:01 GMT
References: <2106@csuna.csun.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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David Sampson writes:

>There are bugs though.......

>I have a keyboard with stand alone cursor keys.  If you hold down the
>down arrow key (or any other arrow key) until you hear the first
>click, then release it, the cursor starts "free running" through the
>document.  It is not just reading the keyboard buffer, because if you
>hit a right arrow key (assuming you originally hit down arrow), the
>cursor instantly changes direction and starts free running across each
>line.  You can stop this by hitting page up or page down.


This does not happen with my MS Word 5.0 on a Hewlett-Packard
Vectra RS-20 or my no-name clone at home.  Both have the 101 enhanced
keyboards with separate cursor keys.  It may be a bug, but it may
not be.  It could be (horror) something about your system, your BIOS
or a number of things.

I hate having to track down stuff like that.  I wish you luck.

Dave Guggisberg
daveg@cv.hp.com