Re: [libreoffice-users] Automatic (?) bold in Writer

Hi,


That rings a bell. I have an Acer laptop with a track pad and just 
figure it out last night. Same problem.


> Here’s what I think may be happening, and it has nothing to do with LibreOffice. I noticed similar 
> strange behavior the first time I bought and used a laptop with a trackpad for a mouse. As I typed, 
> crazy things would happen and, after a while, I realized that my thumb would sometimes 
> inadvertently touch the trackpad causing an unintended mouse click. The result of that unintended 
> click would depend on where my mouse cursor happened to be.
>
> You might check to see if your mouse cursor is hovering over the Boldface icon on the toolbar. If 
> it is, you may be accidentally turning boldface on and off while you type.
>
> This happened to me so often that I have since gotten into the habit of deliberately positioning my 
> mouse cursor somewhere on the screen where a mouse click wouldn’t do anything.
>
> Virgil




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