Weird computer problems

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A post by @TheHorse inspired me to write this. I’m not a computer whizz-kid at all, but most of the time I can manage to get the thing to do what I need. But every now and then I am stumped by something peculiar. Today's strange problem was with Word. I was working on a document and all was fine, until at a certain point I tried to write a phrase along the lines of 'this would be improved by adding extra data if possible'. It was all ok as far as ‘this would be improved by adding extra data if p’ but then as soon as I typed ‘o’ the entire page of text just vanished! Thank goodness for the ‘undo’ button! At first I thought I must have inadvertently pressed some other key by mistake. I tried again but exactly the same thing happened. So then I did it again, pressing each key very carefully and deliberately but no, it still had the same effect. After a couple more attempts I had to go and ask my in-house IT support person, and he tried it a couple of times too and got the exact same result. Finally we got around the problem by finding the word ‘possible’ elsewhere in the document, and copying and pasting it into the required position. That worked and all the subsequent text was fine from then on. But we still have no idea what was going on there! Any suggestions? All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2022.