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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / April 2007Help getting rid of black box on text entry
My neighbor asked me for help with her word program. Some how...... she set something that puts a solid black box across the screen when she tries to type in some text.By that I mean its about 2 sizes bigger than the text charactors and it goes all the way from left to right.After typing some text,which you cant see, you have to click away from the text to get rid of the black box and then you can see what you typed. I tried hard to come up with the cause but I could not figure out what is wrong. Help please,Dale Hi Dale - In order to suggest how to proceed we need more info: What specific version of Word? What specific version of Mac OS? A bit more about the type of Mac may also be useful. Although it's great that you "tried hard" it would be helpful to know exactly _what- you tried:) When you say "all the way from left to right" - edge-to-edge of the page, margin-to-margin, first-to-last character typed? Is this in one specific document or does it happen in new blank documents as well? Is this actually a _box_ or just a black highlight? Regards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 4/29/07 10:45 AM, in article Dc2Zh.780$%f7.217@trndny03, "dale's news stuff" <dwinters6@verizon.net> wrote: > My neighbor asked me for help with her word program. > Some how...... she set something that puts a solid [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Help please,Dale Sorry Bob but Im in the wrong newgroup. This is on a machine running win98... not a mac.Sorry Dale p.s. What group should I post this on??? > Hi Dale - > [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] >> >> Help please,Dale No problem - seems to happen quite a bit:) You might try: Microsoft.public.word.docmanagement Or Microsoft.public.word.applicationerrors Good Luck |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 4/29/07 1:08 PM, in article 8i4Zh.4131$r77.3624@trndny08, "dale's news stuff" <dwinters6@verizon.net> wrote: > Sorry Bob but Im in the wrong newgroup. > This is on a machine running win98... [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] >>> >>> Help please,Dale > No problem - seems to happen quite a bit:) > [quoted text clipped - 57 lines] > > >>> Help please,Dale My tip is if it could be overwriting (Ins button) switched on. In the old days the solid square always indicated overwriting, but it's so long... not sure if it was in 98 :) Format>Style>Modify>Format>Borders and set it to "None". Yes, it WAS in Word 98 :-)  SignaturePlease reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to. http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/ John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd Sydney, Australia. GMT + 10 Hrs +61 4 1209 1410, mailto:john@mcghie.name >> No problem - seems to happen quite a bit:) >> [quoted text clipped - 64 lines] > old days the solid square always indicated overwriting, but it's so > long... not sure if it was in 98 :) |
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