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Phantom streaming text?
Occasionally, while working in Excel 2002, I will open a cell to add data to,
and text will begin to fill the cell without any input from me. I noticed this the first time about a year ago at home, while connected to a DSL Cable modem. I had left the spreadsheet with the cell open and came back later to find the whole screen filled with text that had been entered into that cell. Since then I have seen the same thing 2 or 3 times, currently it is happening on my laptop at work. It is definately text that someone is typing because it advances fairly slow and occasionally backspaces to correct spelling, etc. However, the lines don't make sense, the phrases don't match up with the next or previous phrase. Here's a sample, "and him And the The new to the did a The new name of the day of the and the The The The the". Interesting, eh? Any thoughts?!?!? |
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Phantom streaming text?
Perhaps Speech Recognition is turned on. It can cause strange
behaviour. Choose ToolsSpeechSpeech Recognition (if it had a check mark, it was turned on) Chip wrote: Occasionally, while working in Excel 2002, I will open a cell to add data to, and text will begin to fill the cell without any input from me. I noticed this the first time about a year ago at home, while connected to a DSL Cable modem. I had left the spreadsheet with the cell open and came back later to find the whole screen filled with text that had been entered into that cell. Since then I have seen the same thing 2 or 3 times, currently it is happening on my laptop at work. It is definately text that someone is typing because it advances fairly slow and occasionally backspaces to correct spelling, etc. However, the lines don't make sense, the phrases don't match up with the next or previous phrase. Here's a sample, "and him And the The new to the did a The new name of the day of the and the The The The the". Interesting, eh? Any thoughts?!?!? -- Debra Dalgleish Contextures http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html |
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Phantom streaming text?
Good thought, I thought you might have solved it, but it says "text to speech
is not installed". "Debra Dalgleish" wrote: Perhaps Speech Recognition is turned on. It can cause strange behaviour. Choose ToolsSpeechSpeech Recognition (if it had a check mark, it was turned on) Chip wrote: Occasionally, while working in Excel 2002, I will open a cell to add data to, and text will begin to fill the cell without any input from me. I noticed this the first time about a year ago at home, while connected to a DSL Cable modem. I had left the spreadsheet with the cell open and came back later to find the whole screen filled with text that had been entered into that cell. Since then I have seen the same thing 2 or 3 times, currently it is happening on my laptop at work. It is definately text that someone is typing because it advances fairly slow and occasionally backspaces to correct spelling, etc. However, the lines don't make sense, the phrases don't match up with the next or previous phrase. Here's a sample, "and him And the The new to the did a The new name of the day of the and the The The The the". Interesting, eh? Any thoughts?!?!? -- Debra Dalgleish Contextures http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html |
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