How shiny is your backspace/delete button???? - Ataxia UK

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How shiny is your backspace/delete button????

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Zhez
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Hi all, if there's one thing I'm glad about with the tremors is that I learned to touch type! I still find it very difficult to run off a post first time without it jumping around, getting words mixed up, ending up with gobblygook, editing to make it readable etc.....my backspace button's got a real shine on!!! :)

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wobblybee profile image
wobblybee

Hi Zhez!

The backspace/delete button is my most oft' used! At school I learned to touch type on a

typewriter with blank keys, I thought I would never get the hang of it. It's turned out very

useful, now I can hit the backspace key without having to think where it is!

The cursor jumping around at will, getting words mixed up and editing become a way of

life, you don't know what's going to appear next! xB

Hello Zhez,

with my brain and fingers still in union dispute over who does what and when. I have to really concentrate which makes me type even slower than slow and that is slow for me :-O

I usually don`t bother to rectify spelling errors etc, as it takes up so much of my time, but I thought I would try this time.

All my keys are pretty well polished as I must hit them more times than the normal when I`m typing (if that makes sense :-O)

Good news today, hooray for me, hooray fro me, I received a letter from ATOS and I do not have to go in front of them for a medical examinatoni. Seems they received more information about my condition and must have decided an examination would be pointless (I think they must have received a letter from my Consultant of Neurology).

Anyway it`s a load off my mind :-)

I`ll have to thank him when I see him on the 13th of next month.......................if I remember ;-)

If I remember, that`s laugh, my memory is getting worse as the weeks go by.

Anyway, I`m rambling on again. hope you all are okay keeping out of trouble ha, ha, ha.

Take care

John-H

Love your subject heading! That's made me chuckle!

Yep, it's got a real shine on now- but easier now with an IPad and Siri and Dragon Dictate on my other machine.

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Wyndham

Hi all,

There is some software which may help. It's called Ginger, and it's free grammar and spell checking software - and it works on your web browser and email client (etc).

Like all of these sorts of things, it's not perfect, but it does pick up quite a lot of mistakes.

gingersoftware.com/

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silkwood

Hi Zhez

Know the feeling.Tremors and anything cause big problems.

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