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Keyboard Shortcut Problem - OE/IE6
My wife uses a notebook with a relatively compact keyboard. When she gets
going fast, she sometimes mysteriously would find her letter disappeared and turned up in the "sent" folder, containing the text as of the moment it disappeared. We figured out that she apparently was pressing the Alt key (of which there are two immediately adjacent to the left and right of the spacebar) while typing an "S". The quick keys (and a short test) indicate that Alt-S = Send Now. This happens often enough that she's at the point of getting rid of either the notebook, or possibly me. I have a utility which would let me disable or even reassign the Alt key(s). But since they're used for a lot of other things in other programs, what I'd rather do, if it's possible, is to disable the OE Alt-S command only. Is this possible? -- PT |
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Keyboard Shortcut Problem - OE/IE6
I don't know of anyway to do this. You might search for a keyboard mapping
program that would do something like that or re-assign the keys (a trick I used to do with secretaries back in the DOS days. EG). Also, a standard keyboard is cheap and much easier to type on than Notebook keyboards. You might go out and get her one. steve "PT" wrote in message ... My wife uses a notebook with a relatively compact keyboard. When she gets going fast, she sometimes mysteriously would find her letter disappeared and turned up in the "sent" folder, containing the text as of the moment it disappeared. We figured out that she apparently was pressing the Alt key (of which there are two immediately adjacent to the left and right of the spacebar) while typing an "S". The quick keys (and a short test) indicate that Alt-S = Send Now. This happens often enough that she's at the point of getting rid of either the notebook, or possibly me. I have a utility which would let me disable or even reassign the Alt key(s). But since they're used for a lot of other things in other programs, what I'd rather do, if it's possible, is to disable the OE Alt-S command only. Is this possible? -- PT |
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Keyboard Shortcut Problem - OE/IE6
"PT" wrote in message ... My wife uses a notebook with a relatively compact keyboard. When she gets going fast, she sometimes mysteriously would find her letter disappeared and turned up in the "sent" folder, containing the text as of the moment it disappeared. We figured out that she apparently was pressing the Alt key (of which there are two immediately adjacent to the left and right of the spacebar) while typing an "S". The quick keys (and a short test) indicate that Alt-S = Send Now. This happens often enough that she's at the point of getting rid of either the notebook, or possibly me. I have a utility which would let me disable or even reassign the Alt key(s). But since they're used for a lot of other things in other programs, what I'd rather do, if it's possible, is to disable the OE Alt-S command only. Is this possible? I do not know of a way to do that. But :-) You can change the sending behaviour of OE, @ Toolsoptionssend, disable 'send messages immediately'. Any inadvertent keystroke would then put the message in the outbox until auto send picks in, which can also be disabled on the general tab. (just in case they occur simultaneously?) The message in the outbox can then be moved to your inbox, via (rt click menu), double click it there and continue composing. All mail will remain in the outbox until you hit the send & receive button. Have fun, I hope she lets you stay? -- Regards Steve. MS-MVP. OE. [DTS] |
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Keyboard Shortcut Problem - OE/IE6
You don't have to move the Outbox message to the Inbox to edit it. Just
double click it in the Outbox to open the message and continue composing. -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm " mac" wrote in message ... "PT" wrote in message ... My wife uses a notebook with a relatively compact keyboard. When she gets going fast, she sometimes mysteriously would find her letter disappeared and turned up in the "sent" folder, containing the text as of the moment it disappeared. We figured out that she apparently was pressing the Alt key (of which there are two immediately adjacent to the left and right of the spacebar) while typing an "S". The quick keys (and a short test) indicate that Alt-S = Send Now. This happens often enough that she's at the point of getting rid of either the notebook, or possibly me. I have a utility which would let me disable or even reassign the Alt key(s). But since they're used for a lot of other things in other programs, what I'd rather do, if it's possible, is to disable the OE Alt-S command only. Is this possible? I do not know of a way to do that. But :-) You can change the sending behaviour of OE, @ Toolsoptionssend, disable 'send messages immediately'. Any inadvertent keystroke would then put the message in the outbox until auto send picks in, which can also be disabled on the general tab. (just in case they occur simultaneously?) The message in the outbox can then be moved to your inbox, via (rt click menu), double click it there and continue composing. All mail will remain in the outbox until you hit the send & receive button. Have fun, I hope she lets you stay? -- Regards Steve. MS-MVP. OE. [DTS] |
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Keyboard Shortcut Problem - OE/IE6
"Michael Santovec" wrote in message ... You don't have to move the Outbox message to the Inbox to edit it. Just double click it in the Outbox to open the message and continue composing. Thanks Michael, hope you are well, will PT come back for our pearls of wisdom, or has she kicked him out? :-) mac |
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