My wife uses a notebook with a relatively compact keyboard. When she gets
going fast, she sometimes mysteriously would find her letter disappeared and
turned up in the "sent" folder, containing the text as of the moment it
disappeared.

We figured out that she apparently was pressing the Alt key (of which there
are two immediately adjacent to the left and right of the spacebar) while
typing an "S". The quick keys (and a short test) indicate that Alt-S = Send
Now.

This happens often enough that she's at the point of getting rid of either
the notebook, or possibly me.

I have a utility which would let me disable or even reassign the Alt key(s).
But since they're used for a lot of other things in other programs, what I'd
rather do, if it's possible, is to disable the OE Alt-S command only.

Is this possible?



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PT

I don't know of anyway to do this. You might search for a keyboard mapping
program that would do something like that or re-assign the keys (a trick I
used to do with secretaries back in the DOS days. EG).

Also, a standard keyboard is cheap and much easier to type on than Notebook
keyboards. You might go out and get her one.

steve

"PT" wrote in message
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My wife uses a notebook with a relatively compact keyboard. When she gets
going fast, she sometimes mysteriously would find her letter disappeared
and turned up in the "sent" folder, containing the text as of the moment
it disappeared.

We figured out that she apparently was pressing the Alt key (of which
there are two immediately adjacent to the left and right of the spacebar)
while typing an "S". The quick keys (and a short test) indicate that
Alt-S = Send Now.

This happens often enough that she's at the point of getting rid of either
the notebook, or possibly me.

I have a utility which would let me disable or even reassign the Alt
key(s). But since they're used for a lot of other things in other
programs, what I'd rather do, if it's possible, is to disable the OE Alt-S
command only.

Is this possible?



--

PT

"PT" wrote in message
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My wife uses a notebook with a relatively compact keyboard. When she gets
going fast, she sometimes mysteriously would find her letter disappeared
and turned up in the "sent" folder, containing the text as of the moment
it disappeared.

We figured out that she apparently was pressing the Alt key (of which
there are two immediately adjacent to the left and right of the spacebar)
while typing an "S". The quick keys (and a short test) indicate that
Alt-S = Send Now.

This happens often enough that she's at the point of getting rid of either
the notebook, or possibly me.

I have a utility which would let me disable or even reassign the Alt
key(s). But since they're used for a lot of other things in other
programs, what I'd rather do, if it's possible, is to disable the OE Alt-S
command only.

Is this possible?

I do not know of a way to do that.
But :-)
You can change the sending behaviour of OE, @ Toolsoptionssend, disable
'send messages immediately'. Any inadvertent keystroke would then put the
message in the outbox until auto send picks in, which can also be disabled
on the general tab. (just in case they occur simultaneously?)

The message in the outbox can then be moved to your inbox, via (rt click
menu), double click it there and continue composing.
All mail will remain in the outbox until you hit the send & receive button.

Have fun, I hope she lets you stay?

--
Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. OE. [DTS]

You don't have to move the Outbox message to the Inbox to edit it. Just
double click it in the Outbox to open the message and continue
composing.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


" mac" wrote in message
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"PT" wrote in message
...
My wife uses a notebook with a relatively compact keyboard. When she
gets going fast, she sometimes mysteriously would find her letter
disappeared and turned up in the "sent" folder, containing the text
as of the moment it disappeared.

We figured out that she apparently was pressing the Alt key (of which
there are two immediately adjacent to the left and right of the
spacebar) while typing an "S". The quick keys (and a short test)
indicate that Alt-S = Send Now.

This happens often enough that she's at the point of getting rid of
either the notebook, or possibly me.

I have a utility which would let me disable or even reassign the Alt
key(s). But since they're used for a lot of other things in other
programs, what I'd rather do, if it's possible, is to disable the OE
Alt-S command only.

Is this possible?

I do not know of a way to do that.
But :-)
You can change the sending behaviour of OE, @ Toolsoptionssend,
disable 'send messages immediately'. Any inadvertent keystroke would
then put the message in the outbox until auto send picks in, which can
also be disabled on the general tab. (just in case they occur
simultaneously?)

The message in the outbox can then be moved to your inbox, via (rt
click menu), double click it there and continue composing.
All mail will remain in the outbox until you hit the send & receive
button.

Have fun, I hope she lets you stay?

--
Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. OE. [DTS]

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
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You don't have to move the Outbox message to the Inbox to edit it. Just
double click it in the Outbox to open the message and continue composing.

Thanks Michael, hope you are well, will PT come back for our pearls of
wisdom, or has she kicked him out? :-)
mac