Solved: help with capital lock in word!!!please.....

Hello all, my son accidentally held down the shift key for 8 seconds whilst in a word document and now capital locks is on when it says its not and vice versa and he cant access the numbers on the keyboard - they type as if the shift is on and only produce the symbols. I think it has something to do with filter keys but I dont know what they are or how to disable them. I have tried to hold down the shift key again and turn word on and off but to no avail. He has Office 2003 installed. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

 

This is a little thing Windows likes to call "Sticky keys". It typically gets turned on when the Shift key is pressed 5 or more times consecutively.

You should be able to disable Sticky keys by getting the Sticky key menu up again and choosing to the Settings option. Hit the Shift key 5 times and it should bring up the menu. Then choose Settings and from there, un-check the box to use Sticky keys.

Hope this helps!

 

Thanks Phoenyx - all back to normal now....