Curson not moving with spacebar

[worktruk]

This may seem trivial, but I am working with a group of primary students on OO 2.1. After typing for a few minutes, the cursor on various computers (we are working in a lab situation) will stop moving when they press the spacebar. (This is happening randomly, not on just one or two computers.) If they finish a sentence and type a period, they try to type two spaces to start a new sentence. No matter how many times they press the spacebar, the cursor will not move. However, if you look at the non-printing characters, the spaces are there. If they press spacebar nine times and then type the letter "T", it will be moved over nine places. It is only the cursor that does not appear to move. Anyone seen this before?

[jrkrideau]

[worktruk]

I am using WinXP SP2

[Hagar de l'Est]

It's the fourth time I see it
Once on the French forum, once in the OOo users mailing list and once here : Problem with space at end of line, also bold & italics. Perhaps this latter thread will give you some information. But don't know what could be the root cause.

Note that on the French forum, the context was exactly the same : pupils in school who may have played with the keyboard, activating a mysterious combination ???
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Now on the EN user community forum

[unzari]

But unfortunately, I don't know how to change the extension of a file from .odt to .zip!

I've had OO for a month now, but only got dow to using it today.

And I, too, am suffering from spacebaritis.

I'm using an OS X 10.4 machine, and am having the same problem: when I try to type spaces, the cursor won't move until I type characters again, at which point it automatically jumps to the space where it should be.

Very vexing, and if it doesn't get fixed, I might have to ditch OO. There's no way I'll be able to get used to something like that, I'm afraid.

[acknak]

Perhaps you will want to activate the "Ignore double spaces" option?

I find so many people trying to format their documents using the spacebar--it is a tragedy!

Do your students a big favor and tell them "Anytime you want to hit the space bar more than once, you are doing something the hard way."

[foxcole]

[keme]

[acknak]

I just wanted to say that I had occasion to use OOo 2.2 on a WinXP system yesterday and it was doing this--very, VERY annoying.

[bugmenot]

I was getting this same problem. I am just a regular end user, BTW. At the end of the document, it won't show spaces, at all. I could hit the space bar 10 times and the cursor woudln't move, then I type something else and it jumps out the 10 spaces to put the next character.

But, when I would go up in the document higher, where there was already text, it worked... weird...

So, I just hit enter about 30 times, figuring I'd always have stuff after, working around the problem. Mysteriously, the problem went away after I deleted all of the later lines.

I think it may have been some mysterious, accidental key combination, as was suggested. Still annoying as hell though.

[weetah]

I had this problem, and here's how I solved it.

Go into Autocorrect option from the Tools pulldown menu, and select Options tab.

There, I unchecked the following options:

- Delete spaces and tabs at the begining and end of the paragraph
- Delete spaces and tabs at the end and start of line
- Ignore double spaces

[keme]

Aaah! Autocorrect, of course. Thanks for catching that.

Making a move now, to have all autocorrection off by default...

[jacybug16]

I have just had this problem today with 00 3.1. I have unchecked the suggested options, but it has not solved the problem. Any other suggestions?