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help please! spacebar won't leave a space!
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Does the spacebar do anything (besides leaving a space) in any application, e.g. making the page scroll down in Safari or Firefox? If not, I'll throw out the obvious possibility: You have a defective keyboard.
I vote for bad keyboard without the Safari test.
I had that happen to me on my very first Mac -- a Mac 512. Only in my case it was the night before a term paper was due. I had only one recourse: copy a space from another document, then use command-v to insert spaces where I needed them.
In hindsight I probably could have come up with a more elegant solution -- like typing a number or some other little-used character and then doing a search/replace at the end.
The computer was out of warranty, and the keyboard cost $150 to replace -- a lot of money for a college kid in 1988!
I had that happen to me on my very first Mac -- a Mac 512. Only in my case it was the night before a term paper was due. I had only one recourse: copy a space from another document, then use command-v to insert spaces where I needed them.
In hindsight I probably could have come up with a more elegant solution -- like typing a number or some other little-used character and then doing a search/replace at the end.
The computer was out of warranty, and the keyboard cost $150 to replace -- a lot of money for a college kid in 1988!