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[Closed] Text input 'thing' doing my ****ing head in!

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This might not seem the biggest issue facing humanity at the moment but it's rotting my swede....

If I am typing something and use 'fancy' formatting (like [b]bold[/b] or [i]italics[/i]) the cursor seems to want to jump back to the last formatted text. So when I delete a mistake using backspace it doesn't delete the last thing typed but the last thing typed [u][i]with a special format[/i][/u].

So, imagine I'm writing a sales listing and type....
[b][u]For sale: Moon on a stick[/u][/b]: £125

Then I decide the £125 is a bit steep for the moon on a stick so, with cursor flashing [u]after[/u] the 5 of £125, I hit <backspace> twice but, would you chuffing believe it, the bugger's deleted the last two letters of [b][i]stick[/i][/b].

This has only happened since I got a new Acer laptop with Windows 7. I can't help thinking there's something installed that thinks it's helping me when it's not.

Any ideas?
(apart from find something more important to worry about?)


 
Posted : 26/11/2012 10:27 pm
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Not much help but just so you know your not being unreasonable. That would do my bloody head in!


 
Posted : 26/11/2012 10:43 pm
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What application are you talking about?


 
Posted : 26/11/2012 10:44 pm
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What application are you talking about?

Ah.... we may be onto something here.... Google Chrome.
(I used IE on my old laptop without this 'feature')

I wonder if it's Google helping me?


 
Posted : 26/11/2012 10:53 pm
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Try hitting the 'insert' button on your keyboard, fixed a similar problem for me recently.


 
Posted : 26/11/2012 10:55 pm