Weird commas

[Guest]

I recently opened Excel and started working on a document and suddenly the
computer started adding commas to the cell continuously. It would not allow
me to delete them I had to backspace to get rid of them and if I stopped
backspacing they would continue on infinitely. I thought it was just a
problem with Excel but when trying to change the name of a document somewhere
else it started again. I don't use this computer often and so I dumped
everything and reloaded the factory software and Office and the problem still
continues. I scanned the documents for a virus and found nothing. The has
rendered my laptop useless...help!

 

[Malke]

I recently opened Excel and started working on a document and suddenly the
computer started adding commas to the cell continuously. It would not allow
me to delete them I had to backspace to get rid of them and if I stopped
backspacing they would continue on infinitely. I thought it was just a
problem with Excel but when trying to change the name of a document somewhere
else it started again. I don't use this computer often and so I dumped
everything and reloaded the factory software and Office and the problem still
continues. I scanned the documents for a virus and found nothing. The has
rendered my laptop useless...help!

You panicked and did far more than you should have. From your
description of the issue, this is a faulty keyboard. Contact the laptop
mftr. for repair/replacement.


Malke

 

[Alias]

I recently opened Excel and started working on a document and suddenly the
computer started adding commas to the cell continuously. It would not allow
me to delete them I had to backspace to get rid of them and if I stopped
backspacing they would continue on infinitely. I thought it was just a
problem with Excel but when trying to change the name of a document somewhere
else it started again. I don't use this computer often and so I dumped
everything and reloaded the factory software and Office and the problem still
continues. I scanned the documents for a virus and found nothing. The has
rendered my laptop useless...help!

If it happens with everything, then your comma key is probably stuck.
See if you can clean it up with some alcohol. Also, turn the lap top
upside down and bang it *gently* on a desk or table and try and shake
loose anything that might be stuck in the keyboard. In addition, try
using compressed air to free anything that might be stuck round the
comma key.