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If in MS Word, sometimes hitting the "Undo" arrow (sm)

Posted By: Hate When That Happens! on 2006-06-13
In Reply to: I was working today, hit a wrong key and... - Need help bad!

above can make something you didn't want go away. I've also discovered that if you are working online, like in email for example, hitting "Control" and the "Z" key at the same time works just like "undo". It's especially helpful for when you've just typed a long email, are just about to sign off, and you hit the wrong key and it DISAPPEARS! If you immediately STOP, don't touch anything else, and then hit "Control-Z", if you're online it SHOULD come back! :)


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thanks for helping though!!!  *S*  Much appreciated :)


It is just hitting the keyboard to put something in
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Hi fellow MTs:


Just wanting opinions.  I find some days, my fingers/brain are really "on" with transcribing, but then I have other days, where reaching my line count is a struggle.  Obviously, I'd prefer to all "on" days and I'm wondering if any of you have suggestions on being "on" more than off.


Thanks in advance and happy typing!


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Thanks to my fellow MT's for these suggestions. I'll have to try the classical music.

Have a great day!
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ctrl key to do entire sentence, but I will look and get back to you.

Well - no. Shift arrow down will highlight my entire line and then delete.
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Microsoft Word.. The oold Word used to do this and I'm new to 2003 Word..nm
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I simply used the word as the point of reference. If I had referred to someone AS 'that word'

your read my post that said we are all just people no matter what color we are?


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it is attached to your version of Word. Open Word and it'll be on your tool bar. NM
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