I think my spacebar is wornout.
By Fleur
@Fleura (29127)
United Kingdom
January 21, 2018 5:18am CST
I’mnot a touch typist; I can type reasonably quickly but I mostly look at thekeyboard whiledoing so, and only look up every sentence or two. This hasneverbeen aproblemuntilnow, when I think I must have wornout my keyboard spacebar. I type two or three sentences andthenwhenI look at the result, I find that inmany places the words are all run together into one and then I have togo back and insert spacesin the places between words where they are missing. If I don’tcorrect it, then the result is as you see here.
It’s driving memad! None of the other keys are affected. It’sbeen happening for a few weeksnow. I think the first thing to try will be a goodclean, in case there are a load of crumbsor something stuck under there.After that I’mnot sure what else to try.It seems aminorproblemanddoesn’t really justify anewlaptop but it is really infuriating!
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@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
21 Jan 18
I don't know but @Owlwings seems to make a reasonable suggestion.
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@m_audrey6788 (58485)
• Germany
21 Jan 18
You can try the suggestion of @owlwings about cleaning your keyboard or you can buy a bluetooth base keyboard 
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
21 Jan 18
Have you cleaned your keyboard recently? Sometimes cleaning the surface of the keyboard can push tiny bits of loose dirt and dust below the keys, even on a laptop, where the keys are better protected than a normal keyboard. Even if you haven't done anything to the keyboard, this might be the cause of your problem.
It's worth getting a can of compressed air (computer shops sell them and they're not expensive) and giving the keyboard a few well directed blasts.
If that doesn't work, then you may have to take a laptop to be cleaned and serviced. A standard keyboard is pretty easy to clean yourself (and cheap enough to replace if you don't fancy doing that).
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@Dirren_Ronaldo (291)
• Yogyakarta, Indonesia
21 Jan 18
it's terrible..
i have to change your Keyboard..
Or just repair that...
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@Dirren_Ronaldo (291)
• Yogyakarta, Indonesia
22 Jan 18
@Fleura yeaaa... i think so
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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22 Jan 18
I wouldn't be able to cope with that; my laptop would have found itself hitting a wall by now. Thankfully I don't have a laptop.
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