Microsoft KB Archive/26051

Word: SHIFT+RETURNS Not Allowing Insertion at End of Line PSS ID Number: Q26051 Article last modified on 03-04-1993 PSS database name: M_WorD

3.00 3.01 3.02

MACINTOSH

Summary:

When you try to add text in Microsoft Word versions 3.x to the end of a line that has a SHIFT+RETURN (the RETURN key on the main keyboard) at the end, the text may be inserted at the start of the next line.

This is because the SHIFT+RETURN (newline character) does not function the same way as a paragraph mark in Word 3.x. When you click to the right of a newline character, the insertion point is after the mark and, therefore, on the next line.

To add text to that line, place the cursor after the last character on the line and before the SHIFT+RETURN.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Word versions 3.00, 3.01, and 3.02. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Word version 4.00.

In Word 4.00, you can click to the right of the newline character and the insertion point will appear to the left of it.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1993.