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So there we are. My Totally Off Topic request for help has resulted in
someone coming on and pointing out the obvious and totally non-surprising
fact that I was off topic, which allowed us to have a jolly enjoyable
session telling him what a prat he was, and then we all exchanged info about
all the funny keys, some of which info I have written down and stuck on the
wall in front of me for future reference.

So all's well that ends well! Ahh, this thread had been like one of those
American programmes where the villain is vanquished and then there's a
period of co-operative creativity and and then at the end happy music plays
and everyone stands in a half circle facing the camera making little quips
and beaming.

Bill

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Whatever you do, don't hit the INS (insert) key by mistake (as I did once),
the curser will then be inexplicably eating any characters that are unlucky
enough to be in front of it.

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Bill Wright wrote:


"Owain" wrote in message
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Max Demian wrote:
But then you need to carry your photo printer in your handbag - unless
you expect people to squint at the tiny screen.

Someone will combine a digital camera with one of those projection clocks
so you can project your photos onto the wall in the pub 'real soon now'

Perfectly feasible, with a pocket-sized nuclear power source.

We are getting there. High power LEDs can kick out a fair bit of light
for not that much battery drain. I should think that you could make a
pocket projector to go up to A4 size without much bother.
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

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Marky P wrote:

On 24 Apr 2007 05:12:21 -0700, Mark Carver
wrote:

On Apr 24, 12:01 pm, "Steve Thackery" wrote:

I wonder if, again, it's due to accidental presses of the Insert key.
However, I can't explain why it won't go back to how it should be. We need
an IT expert, I think.

I used to have a laptop, where the delete key was next to the power
button. After a couple of disasters, I set 'autosave' in Excel and
Word to 1 minute !

I use Agent for newsgroups and fo some reason it always overwrites if
I need to go back. I can't get it to change.

Hmmm I wonder why.

The help files have this:

When editing a message in the composition window, you can type over
characters by switching from the "insert mode" to the "overwrite
mode". To do this, place your cursor at the point where you want to
begin overwriting text, then press the Insert key until you see OVR on
the far right side of the status bar. Now you are ready to type over
the text. To return to the insert mode, press the Insert key again.
OVR will disappear from the status bar and you will no longer type
over existing characters when you enter new text.

This seems to be indepedent of the setting in any other w/p program.

So look down there V Does it say OVR? Then press insert

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Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

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In message , Tantalust
writes
Whatever you do, don't hit the INS (insert) key by mistake (as I did once),
the curser will then be inexplicably eating any characters that are unlucky
enough to be in front of it.



Unfortunately, the INS key is conveniently situated immediately to the
right of the backspace key. On some keyboards, you can hardly get a
cigarette paper between them.

If, like me, you have to look at the keyboard when you are typing, you
may suddenly realise that you have gone into the 'overwrite' mode, and
overwritten several lines of typing. Invariably, what you have
overwritten was the result of a moment of divine inspiration, and (like
the Lost Chord), can never be recalled.

You probably put this down to that fact that that you have accidentally
touched the INS key. Not so. It's just your computer having a laugh.

Ian.
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In message , Bill Wright
writes
So there we are. My Totally Off Topic request for help has resulted in
someone coming on and pointing out the obvious and totally non-surprising
fact that I was off topic, which allowed us to have a jolly enjoyable
session telling him what a prat he was, and then we all exchanged info about
all the funny keys, some of which info I have written down and stuck on the
wall in front of me for future reference.

So all's well that ends well! Ahh, this thread had been like one of those
American programmes where the villain is vanquished and then there's a
period of co-operative creativity and and then at the end happy music plays
and everyone stands in a half circle facing the camera making little quips
and beaming.

Bill



But does the hero get the girl?
Ian.
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"Ian Jackson" wrote in
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In message , Bill Wright
writes
So there we are. My Totally Off Topic request for help has resulted
in someone coming on and pointing out the obvious and totally
non-surprising fact that I was off topic, which allowed us to have a
jolly enjoyable session telling him what a prat he was, and then we
all exchanged info about all the funny keys, some of which info I
have written down and stuck on the wall in front of me for future
reference. So all's well that ends well! Ahh, this thread had been like
one of
those American programmes where the villain is vanquished and then
there's a period of co-operative creativity and and then at the end
happy music plays and everyone stands in a half circle facing the
camera making little quips and beaming.

But does the hero get the girl?

Or is there a big party with lashings of ice cream and ginger beer?

--
Max Demian

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On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:37:17 +0100, "Bill Wright"
wrote:


"Adrian A" wrote in message
...
Max Demian wrote:

Don't you mean next to the one key?

Well they display the characters indicated. ` unmodified, ¬ shifted
and ¦ with Alt Gr. (Ah! there's another rarely used key!)

I once told my sister that was the 'any key', she believed me. ;-)


There's an Allt Street in Rawmarsh (or Parkgate).

Bill


On keyboards that predate the introduction of the Euro if you type Alt
Gr+4 you get the Euro symbol

I suspect you will not find much use for that rthen Bill :-)
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Cheers

Peter

Please remove the invalid to reply

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"Ian Jackson" wrote in message
...
In message , Bill Wright
writes
So all's well that ends well! Ahh, this thread had been like one of those
American programmes where the villain is vanquished and then there's a
period of co-operative creativity and and then at the end happy music
plays
and everyone stands in a half circle facing the camera making little quips
and beaming.

Bill



But does the hero get the girl?
Ian.

He shags her senseless matey.

Bill

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In message , Bill Wright
writes

"Ian Jackson" wrote in message
...
In message , Bill Wright
writes
So all's well that ends well! Ahh, this thread had been like one of those
American programmes where the villain is vanquished and then there's a
period of co-operative creativity and and then at the end happy music
plays
and everyone stands in a half circle facing the camera making little quips
and beaming.

Bill



But does the hero get the girl?
Ian.

He shags her senseless matey.

Bill



So your TOT posting wasn't a TWOT, then!!
Ian.
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