Weird Formatting in Word XP

[jsweber]

I have Word XP running on Win XP pro sp2

In Word, when you hit the space bar for some reason it looks like it's jumping 10 spaces, like a double tab.

When you hit the tab key it does it's normal 5 spaces or till the next tab stop, but hitting the spacebar, the cursor jumps at least 10 spaces..

I have searched google, etc, trying to figure this out. I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling but it kept the same default settings.

Has anyone ran into this before??

Thanks for any help

Scott

[vinodh]

Try going to :

control panel>keyboard>speed and check your settings.

I attached a sreenshot of my settings. Hopefully, this helps. If you find another solution or if my idea works please reply. I find this quite interesting.

[jsweber]

Tried out notepad, etc. and the spacebar all works fine.

Somehow it's tied in with word and some formatting defaults

I cannot for the life of me see anything with in word that would help me on this..

[vinodh]

Which version of Word are you using? Also, i'll attach a copy of my normal. dot template. this file is the base template. Use this file by overwriting your current version. Do a search for 'normal.dot' and overwrite all versions of this file with the attached version. Since normat.dot contains all formatting and styles etc. , it might help.

BTW: Word 2003 does NOT use normal.dotNormal.zip

[jsweber]

Word XP (2002)

I will try the normal.dot tomorrow as we are closing early today, thank goodness. lol

thanks for the help

Scott

[jsweber]

Ok I went ahead and renamed the normal.dat and let Word just create a new one

and that took care of the problem..

Thanks again

Scott

[vinodh]

Well, since it was related to norma.dot, it mean't that when you uninstalled office, that template was left behind. At least it's fixed.