todd@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Todd Ogasawara) (07/11/88)
I found out yesterday that some of the Microsoft Word keyboard text
selection/blocking commands do not work on the T1000 (and the T1200 too, I
hear). Here is the problem. On every other computer I use (the
Standard-286 from PC Source, the HP Vectra ES/12, and the NEC Multispeed),
you can select blocks of text using the SHIFT-<direction key> combinations.
E.g., Shift-End will block the text from where the cursor is to the end of
the line, Shift-rightarrow will block from the current position to the
character to the right, etc. This did not work at all on the T1000.
However, other text selection commands -- Shift-F6, F7, F8, F9, F10 -- work
ok. I suspect there is some sort of problem in the way the Toshiba
portables scan the keyboard. Has anyone found a fix for this problem?
I am replacing my NEC Multispeed with a Toshiba T1000 soon to reduce the
weight of the stuff I tote around with me and it is important that
Microsoft Word works with the T1000.
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Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii Faculty Development Program
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To answer my own earlier question--+
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In article <2034@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> todd@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Todd Ogasawara) writes:
]I found out yesterday that some of the Microsoft Word keyboard text
]selection/blocking commands do not work on the T1000 (and the T1200 too, I
]hear). Here is the problem. On every other computer I use (the
]Standard-286 from PC Source, the HP Vectra ES/12, and the NEC Multispeed),
]you can select blocks of text using the SHIFT-<direction key> combinations.
]E.g., Shift-End will block the text from where the cursor is to the end of
]the line, Shift-rightarrow will block from the current position to the
]character to the right, etc. This did not work at all on the T1000.
A friend found the solution to my problem. It seems that the T1000 can be
in either one of two keyboard emulation modes. The default mode is an
"84-key" emulation mode that corresponds to the old IBM PC/XT keyboard.
Microsoft Word 4.0's shift-key block selection does not work in this
default mode. The alternate mode is a "101-key" emulation that corresponds
to the AT type extended keyboard. By selecting this alternate keyboard
mode in the SETUP10 program, you can get all the Microsoft Word keyboard
block selection mode to work correctly.
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