Footnote text cannot be entered without mouse click

[escosesrojo]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel Normally adding a footnote number automatically adds that number to the bottom of the page. A blinking text entry indicator normally allows me to enter the footnote text without any additional step.

However, today I wanted to add a footnote number after a word, and although the corresponding number correctly appears at the bottom of the page, and the blinking text entry indicator also appears ready to allow entering footnote text, yet when I try to type, nothing is entered. I must resort to a click with the mouse, then I am allowed to enter text. What has changed? Why do I now have to click with the mouse to enter footnotes? I don't like this unusual behavior, so what must I do to return Word's footnote entry to its normal non-mouse-clicking behavior?

 

[John McGhie]

I am afraid you will have to tell us what has changed!

It would appear that as soon as you enter a footnote, "something" is
stealing the focus (the insertion point) away from the Word document,
causing you to have to click back in the document to bring the focus back.

It's not Word doing this: when you insert a footnote, Word does not send the
focus anywhere else.

Have you installed any "helper" applications or "haxies" that could be
getting between the keyboard and Word?

Cheers

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
Normally adding a footnote number automatically adds that number to the bottom
of the page. A blinking text entry indicator normally allows me to enter the
footnote text without any additional step.

However, today I wanted to add a footnote number after a word, and although
the corresponding number correctly appears at the bottom of the page, and the
blinking text entry indicator also appears ready to allow entering footnote
text, yet when I try to type, nothing is entered. I must resort to a click
with the mouse, then I am allowed to enter text. What has changed? Why do I
now have to click with the mouse to enter footnotes? I don't like this unusual
behavior, so what must I do to return Word's footnote entry to its normal
non-mouse-clicking behavior?

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[escosesrojo]

Thanks John McGhie, for your response.

I have no helper applications or haxies (I had no idea what these were until today) that I am aware of.

In any event, today Word's footnote entry is working flawlessly as it always has. Why the overnight change, I cannot say. Yesterday, I had to update Shockwave to use the Vistas textbook Supersite verb wheel for the Spanish class that I teach. Whether installing Shockwave is a helper app or haxie is for me an unknown.

I'm pleased to have Word functioning normally.

Thanks again.