An office worker held her shift key down too long. Got a message and now
cannot get into her documents in word. Anyone know how to get it off?
Thanks

Check the 'sticky keys' setting in Windows accessibility options.

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Black_729 wrote:
An office worker held her shift key down too long. Got a message and
now cannot get into her documents in word. Anyone know how to get it
off? Thanks

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 09:27:04 -0700, Black_729
wrote:

An office worker held her shift key down too long. Got a message and now
cannot get into her documents in word. Anyone know how to get it off?
Thanks

By default, holding down the Shift key for 8 seconds turns on
FilterKeys, one of the Windows accessibility options. You can turn it
off by going to Start Settings Control Panel Accessibility
Options and unchecking it.

But all FilterKeys does is ignore rapidly repeated keystrokes, such as
what you get when you hold a letter key until it repeats. That
shouldn't have any effect on whether you can "get into documents" in
Word. What exactly do you mean by that? Can't open the Word program,
can open the program but can't open a document, can open a document
but can't edit? What version of Word? Has the program been activated
(Help Activate Product)?

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