Spacebar is possessed!

[Natalie]

Every time I hit the spacebar in Word 97 the word I just
typed is repeated. I'm lost as to what to do. I tried
everything I could think of. I even uninstalled the app
and installed Word 2000 and it did the same thing!!
Someone please help!

 

[Kiran]

Hi Natalie,

I believe you have a corrupted registry key which is
unable to get updated after fresh reinstallation also.
Some junk data still remains in the Word key.Remove the
Word key from the Registry in both the HKCU and HKLM and
restart the system, then after rebooting, start the word
application to get the Key re-registered.
If the above method do not resolve the issue, try a clean
boot.
Remove the Word2000, run >> msconfig, selective startup,
uncheck the four items to be started, restart the
system, reinstall Word again.

kiran....

 

[Klaus Linke]

Every time I hit the spacebar in Word 97 the word I just
typed is repeated. I'm lost as to what to do. I tried
everything I could think of. I even uninstalled the app
and installed Word 2000 and it did the same thing!!
Someone please help!

Hi Natalie,

If there is a chance that someone played a practical joke on you by making
the spacebar a keyboard shortcut to a macro, you could get rid of the
shortcut with the macro below.

It will tell you the name of the macro, and then allows you to remove the
shortcut.

Sub RemoveSpacebarShortcut()
Dim aKey As KeyBinding
' assuming the macro is in normal.dot:
CustomizationContext = NormalTemplate
For Each aKey In KeyBindings
If aKey.KeyCode = wdKeySpacebar Then
MsgBox aKey.Command
If MsgBox("Disable?", vbQuestion + vbYesNo) = vbYes Then
aKey.Clear
End If
End If
Next aKey
End Sub

Regards,
Klaus