If you move your insertion point with the arrow keys or the mouse before you
start to type you'll switch your command off.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Allan" wrote in message
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Hi, When using Contol & B when typing a word document sometimes it works
and
sometimes I have to type the word first then highlight it & press control
B
to make it bold. Same applies to other shortcut keys. This seems to be an
intermitant fault but can get bad at times in variuos documents.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Allan.