Use your mouse to type?

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Anyone know of a program which would allow the mouse to click on letters and type in words? I know it would be slow and klunky but better than nothing.

My keyboard has started doing random freezes. I think it is in the actual plug to the tower. Sometimes just jogging the plug and rebooting works. When it happens when a customer is standing here wanting to know about their file it would be nice to be able to click in a search name.

Probably have to buy another new keyboard. Since the cord is hardwired to the kb and can’t be changed. Hmmm — I’m off to the hardware board to ask about keyboards.

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Try Click-N-Type, it is free and you can find it at

http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/inf…5,74208,00.html

Ron

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If you are using Windows 2000 there is a virtual keyboard available under the accessability options..

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Tx Always wondered why MS didn’t offer one for accessabilty. Glad they finally got around to it. Now I just have to upgrade to 2000. Meanwhile I will check out the link first chance I get.

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As you might imagine XP also has the on-screen keyboard. However, with mine there are no letters on the keycaps until the mouse hovers on them. I don’t like this mode – and I can’t see how to chage it. Anyone?

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I regularly wear the letters off my physical keyboard, so that wouldn’t bother me at all! You’re just going to have to learn to type with more than one phalange at a time, MerC.

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There’s one in windows ME too

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Hi Ron:

Just for your information, if you click the “Tag Panel” & choose the top right icon you can post a live link, so it will look like this
url=link]description[/url] (I left out the opening bracket on purpose.)

When you paste in the link & description like this:

url=http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/info/0,10615,74208,00.html]Click-N-Type[/url]

it will look like this Click-N-Type

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