Question about MS Word

[IronFist]

Ok. When I hit ctrl+b, I get bold :)

When I hit ctrl+u, I get underline :)

But when I hit ctrl+i, I get an upwards pointing arrow. It's supposed to give me italics, not an arrow! Wtf?

How do I fix that? Every other computer I use, ctrl+i give me italics.

:confused:

IronFist

[Serpent]

ctrl + i gives me italics.

:confused:

[IronFist]

Good. It's supposed to :)

IronFist

[Serpent]

That's all right then. :)

You're the weird one.

[Felipe Bido]

Place the text you want to be in italics between two underbars (_). They should show the italics

[guohuen]

Exel.

[SaMantis]

Hmm. Ctrl-i works OK for me. Could be you're working in an unusual font and it's inserting a symbol.

Or just try the old standby ... reboot!

[IronFist]

Italics should work with any font. I've rebooted many times.

Anyone else have any ideas?

IronFist

[Cipher]

That is weird. What version of word are you running? Your best bet may to just remove and reinstall word.

[IronFist]

Office 2000.

IronFist

[Aramus]

Well, I don't know, it should work...hmmm
Have you checked AutoCorrect under the Tools Menu? Or the auto text? Something has to be set up incorrectly (thank you, I am Mr. Obvious)...
Hmm, what font are you using (but that shouldn't matter unless you're using symbols and even that shouldn't work)?
You could try the customize and options keys under tools, but I really don't know.
Good luck
Peace.

[Robbie]

Someone probably has a macro or something else of the sort set up so ctrl+i creates the arrow. Kinda like using character maps, type in Alt+0234 and get ê. Try opening up the character map find the symbol that you see printing and select it. See what the keyboard shortcut for it is. I bet it's ctrl+i. Just delete that and you should be back to normal assuming the italics will take back control once the other is gone.

[Royal Dragon]

Can't you just do this <i></i>??

Or highlight it and hit the I button?

Or am I not understanding the issue here?

[IronFist]

RD, <i> and [i] don't work in MS Word.

I could just highlight it, go up to the top and hit the I, but that slows me down. I like to just type type type ctrl+i type type ctrl+i type type. It's much faster that way.

Auto Correct didn't change anything, but that was a good suggestion.

In Character Map, there is no upwards arrow character. Is there another place to check for macros?

The upwards arrow character appears for ctrl+i no matter what font I use.

IronFist

[Serpent]

Your computer is obviously possessed by the devil. There's nothing else for it but an exorcism.

Good luck with that!

[IronFist]

Can I just kick it really hard instead?

IronFist

[Serpent]

You haven't tried that already?! Man, that's the first thing I do whenever there's a problem! ;)

[Serpent]

Works with my woman too! ;)

( :eek: )

[Cipher]

Does it do that on only one specific doc or does it mess up even when you open a blank doc? Maybe it is something in the doc itself causing the problem.

[Cipher]

Hey I looked around and you could try the steps listed below. I have 97 and found it in this order but it should be the same for Word 2000.


1. On the Tools menu, click Customize.

2. Click Keyboard.

3. In the Save changes in box, click normal.doc (Unless you are in
a specific document)

4. In the Categories box, scroll to click Format.

5. In the box to the right, click "Italic"

6. Any shortcut keys that are currently assigned appear in the
Current keys box.

7. In the Press new shortcut key box, type the shortcut key
combination you want to assign.

8. Click Assign.

9. You can also remove a shorcut you don't want

Hope this helps:D

[wooha]

What's the arrow pointing at? Maybe your computer is trying to show you something.