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Hello all,
I was recently using an Excel program and I inadvertently held down the
shift key while thinking about something. I guess I held it down for 8
seconds and a box popped up saying that I'd just used a shortcut to turn on
filter keys. From then on, I could not use the Excel program any more and
thought this was a feature of Excel. But once I was out of Excel, I noticed
that my mousie wasn't working at all like it used to.
The only way I was able to bail out of this mess was to use task manager to
log myself off, and only then could I even reboot the computer. Now that it
has re-booted, everything seems fine and the little 'filter keys' icon is
now gone from the notification area.
What had I done? I don't want that to happen again. It seems that I was
not able to turn off filter keys once I accidentally turned it on. What is
this all about?
Thanks for any guidance.
Danno
Hello all,
I was recently using an Excel program and I inadvertently held down the
shift key while thinking about something. I guess I held it down for 8
seconds and a box popped up saying that I'd just used a shortcut to turn on
filter keys. From then on, I could not use the Excel program any more and
thought this was a feature of Excel. But once I was out of Excel, I noticed
that my mousie wasn't working at all like it used to.
The only way I was able to bail out of this mess was to use task manager to
log myself off, and only then could I even reboot the computer. Now that it
has re-booted, everything seems fine and the little 'filter keys' icon is
now gone from the notification area.
What had I done? I don't want that to happen again. It seems that I was
not able to turn off filter keys once I accidentally turned it on. What is
this all about?
Thanks for any guidance.
Danno