The letters are not appearing on the monitor as I type but if I go to spell
check they are there. I think it is something simple to adjust but just cant
get it to work.

Dallass wrote:
The letters are not appearing on the monitor as I type but if I go to
spell check they are there. I think it is something simple to adjust
but just cant get it to work.

With the cursor in the text (use the spell-checker to get there if
necessary), check the values in the Format Font and Format Paragraph
dialogs. The text may be white on white, or it may be set with a large
negative indent so that it's off-screen. There are probably some other odd
settings that could do this -- is the text just in regular paragraphs, or in
tables, or in text boxes? Does this happen in all documents, or just in new
ones?

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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