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F4 to repeat last action
I often use F4 to repeat my last action in Word, but lately, if my last
action was typing something, F4 gives me everything EXCEPT the first letter. Does this have something to do with the first letter being capitalized? Is there a way to get it all? Thanks! |
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F4 to repeat last action
No, it has to do with the fact that if what you were typing was replacing
selected text, the first letter is counted as a replacement and the rest as typing, so Word sees this as two separate Undo/Repeat steps. Yes, it's annoying, but since it frequently has embarrassing results, it's good that you have become aware of it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Idaho Word Man" wrote in message ... I often use F4 to repeat my last action in Word, but lately, if my last action was typing something, F4 gives me everything EXCEPT the first letter. Does this have something to do with the first letter being capitalized? Is there a way to get it all? Thanks! |
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I guess I'll just paste the new text and then use F4 thereafter. Thanks.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No, it has to do with the fact that if what you were typing was replacing selected text, the first letter is counted as a replacement and the rest as typing, so Word sees this as two separate Undo/Repeat steps. Yes, it's annoying, but since it frequently has embarrassing results, it's good that you have become aware of it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Idaho Word Man" wrote in message ... I often use F4 to repeat my last action in Word, but lately, if my last action was typing something, F4 gives me everything EXCEPT the first letter. Does this have something to do with the first letter being capitalized? Is there a way to get it all? Thanks! |
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I have this same problem with my version of Word 2003 on my computer at work,
but not on my home computer, where I also have Word 2003. And I never had the problem prior to version 2003. So there must be some setting in 2003 that can be changed, but I've looked all over and can't find it. If anyone knows where that is, I'd love to know about it. "Idaho Word Man" wrote: I guess I'll just paste the new text and then use F4 thereafter. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No, it has to do with the fact that if what you were typing was replacing selected text, the first letter is counted as a replacement and the rest as typing, so Word sees this as two separate Undo/Repeat steps. Yes, it's annoying, but since it frequently has embarrassing results, it's good that you have become aware of it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Idaho Word Man" wrote in message ... I often use F4 to repeat my last action in Word, but lately, if my last action was typing something, F4 gives me everything EXCEPT the first letter. Does this have something to do with the first letter being capitalized? Is there a way to get it all? Thanks! |
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If there is any different setting, it might be in the Smart Cut and Paste
settings (Tools | Options | Edit). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Dan" wrote in message ... I have this same problem with my version of Word 2003 on my computer at work, but not on my home computer, where I also have Word 2003. And I never had the problem prior to version 2003. So there must be some setting in 2003 that can be changed, but I've looked all over and can't find it. If anyone knows where that is, I'd love to know about it. "Idaho Word Man" wrote: I guess I'll just paste the new text and then use F4 thereafter. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No, it has to do with the fact that if what you were typing was replacing selected text, the first letter is counted as a replacement and the rest as typing, so Word sees this as two separate Undo/Repeat steps. Yes, it's annoying, but since it frequently has embarrassing results, it's good that you have become aware of it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Idaho Word Man" wrote in message ... I often use F4 to repeat my last action in Word, but lately, if my last action was typing something, F4 gives me everything EXCEPT the first letter. Does this have something to do with the first letter being capitalized? Is there a way to get it all? Thanks! |
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F4 to repeat last action
That's a good guess, and it's what I suspected too, but no luck. I tried
switching a ton of settings under tools/options/edit, but nothing's worked so far. Like the original poster on this question, I've learned to work around the problem by pasting instead of typing, but it sure would be nice to be able to find a switch for this. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If there is any different setting, it might be in the Smart Cut and Paste settings (Tools | Options | Edit). -- |
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