Re: irredentism and such things

[Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxx]

Reply to note from Paul Breeze  Sat, 3
Dec 2005 13:38:03 GMT

> And I'd like mine to work.

In other words -- just to clarify -- you'd like it to act, operate,
function, have effect, and produce results, in an operative,
efficient, efficacious, practical, doable, and effectual sort of
way? I can relate to that!

You say that you "can bring up the Thesaurus window but neither the
cursor keys, nor PGUP, PGDN etc do anything." This sounds like a
keyboard control issue. Are you using the keys on the numeric
keypad? If so, try the standalone cursor keys, PageUp, PageDn, etc.
-- the ones to the left of the numeric pad. On my XP machine, the
thesaurus does not respond to Ctrl-PageDn and Enter on the numeric
keypad, but does respond to the standalone Ctrl-PageDn key and the
touch-typing Enter key. Also note that another way to look up the
thesaurus word under the cursor (or any word) is simply to type the
word. This is a way around a non-functional Ctrl-PageDn key -- less
efficient, but still efficacious.

Worth a try.

--
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx