Posted: December 02 2002 at 23:26 | IP Logged

I recently installed latest version of PH on my WinXP system. When I am in the Explorer trying to set up or change macros the text in the id and description fields starts changing without me typing anything. I am a new user and could easily have set things up wrong. This ghost text happens in other area also such as timed events. I don't get this behavior in any other applications so I believe my keyboard is ok.  I don't have a cat so nothing is walking over the keys either.

Here's an example: In the Description field I type "TURN ON OUTSIDE LIGHTS".  What gets in the field is "TUR2N2 LON  OU2T2SID2E LIGHT2". When I stop typing it continues to change to something like "FL7777777".

Any ideas? Thanks.

Posted: December 02 2002 at 23:40 | IP Logged

You wouldn't possibly have Office 2000 and have the speech recognition turned on, would you? This actually happened to me once.

Tony

Posted: December 03 2002 at 11:13 | IP Logged

The problem does indeed seem to be that I had Speech Recognition enabled. I turned it off and haven't seen any ghost characters reappear.

Thanks Tony. Also my wife thanks you for the improvement in the language around here.

Posted: December 03 2002 at 11:17 | IP Logged

Pat,

Sorry it took so long to respond, just got back from vacation.

Anyways, it looks as if Tony has helped you out.  Im not sure if I would have even thought of that.

Tony, thanks a lot.  I would have been delving into the code and scratching my head on this one

Dave.