Thanks Richard. I have run Spybot and Adaware, deleted all cookies, rebooted and no change. I also use Zone Alarm and EZTrust anti-virus fully updated. A different keyboard had the same result.
It's such an odd and specific problem it seems strange, but I notice Mywebsearch has placed its own toolbar on my screen and I can't find any way of getting rid of it. Don't know if that has anything to do with the problem; I would have thought Spybot or Adaware would have notified me of it. Or did one of those programs in fact put it there? Very mysterious.
Since I'm on 98SE and don't have a system restore available to me, I can assume you meant a clean reinstall by suggesting a repair to the OS? *Sigh* Maybe I'll just keep composing everything in Word.
