wrote:
Like you, I had trouble seaching for this. Out of curiousity, can
you point me to the other mentions of this behaviour? I'd really
like to see what they said. It might give me a spark for something
to search for.

Managed to scrape up a couple:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...0ad26a7db6c77a
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...d7ff9f611b3a64
http://help.lockergnome.com/office/O...ict594140.html


Something mentioned in one of these threads is niggling at my mind, so I
want to verify that you're 110% sure that the send happens when you hit
control-v and not immediately after when you hit enter (assuming you hit
enter)? The reason I ask is two fold. First, as a touch typist, I know how
quickly fingers can work even when you're not thinking about it. Secondly,
just to say that I don't think you're accidentally hitting control-enter,
ever since Win95 I've had problems with control, alt and shift 'sticking'.
It isn't sticky keys, it isn't a ratty old keyboard that I've had a few
scones over, it just seems to get, well, stuck. Usually takes a bit of
banging on the key (occasionally enough to turn sticky keys on) to get it
unstuck. I've never tracked that one down, but I've seen it quite a few
times with coworkers as well. I usually have to hit them a few times as
well to get them out of m office. Ok, no, I meant the keyboard thing, but,
anyways. That sticky key problem, along with hitting enter, *could* do
it....

--
f.h.

On Mar 5, 9:45 pm, "F.H. Muffman" wrote:
So, just to make sure, it only seems to happen on the first control-v in the
message. IOW, whatever is causing this, while random, isn't random beyond
the unsent message window.

I've had it happen to me about a half-dozen times in the past few
months.
Nothing on my machine is configured to catch keystrokes, but I can't
say that there's nothing other than office installed on my computer.
The only thing that (annoyingly) installs itself to run with Office is
Acrobat.

The "send on paste" problem doesn't always happen on the first paste
in
the message -- last night it happened on about the fifth (I was
assembling
a message of selected lines from various error logs). Just hit
control-V,
and poof, the message was sent without the pasted content.

Since the pasted comment doesn't show up in the E-mail, I wonder if it
is something like this: When copying and pasting, one goes to a
different
window to get the content to copy; when the eMail message window is
made
the active window again, perhaps the focus is no longer in the
message
body, so the keystrokes are interpreted differently.

Chris Stassen wrote:
On Mar 5, 9:45 pm, "F.H. Muffman" wrote:
So, just to make sure, it only seems to happen on the first
control-v in the message. IOW, whatever is causing this, while
random, isn't random beyond the unsent message window.

The "send on paste" problem doesn't always happen on the first past in
the message -- last night it happened on about the fifth (I was assembling
a message of selected lines from various error logs). Just hit control-V,
and poof, the message was sent without the pasted content.

Since the pasted comment doesn't show up in the E-mail, I wonder if it
is something like this: When copying and pasting, one goes to a different
window to get the content to copy; when the eMail message window is made
the active window again, perhaps the focus is no longer in the message
body, so the keystrokes are interpreted differently.

It is possible. How are you switching windows? Do you *always* use
alt-tab, or do you sometimes use the mouse? If you click on anything but
the body of the message or the title bar, you could conceivably shift focus.

--
f.h.

It is possible. How are you switching windows? Do you *always*
use alt-tab, or do you sometimes use the mouse?

I generally click on the window's label in the taskbar, or click on
the window's frame.

However, while I am not 100% certain, I believe that it has happened
at times when the focus is in the body. My usual pasting procedure is
to find the stuff to paste, and then find the location to paste it, so
I'd come back to the mail message and move the focus to the desired
paste point after coming back.

It is really strange, and happens only very rarely. It happened twice
yesterday, which brought me to searching for the solution... but it
had probably been at least a week before that without it happening --
hundreds of emails and pastes into emails.

Getting into the habit of filling in the recipient fields last is not
too hard, the problem is that most emails are replies to received
emails, which causes those fields to be populated up-front.

Getting into the habit of filling in the recipient fields last is not
too hard, the problem is that most emails are replies to received
emails, which causes those fields to be populated up-front.

a better habit is typing garbage (i.e. dlkjmbnsj) in the cc field - doesn't
matter if it's a reply or new message when you do this.

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"Chris Stassen" wrote in message
ups.com...
It is possible. How are you switching windows? Do you *always*
use alt-tab, or do you sometimes use the mouse?

I generally click on the window's label in the taskbar, or click on
the window's frame.

However, while I am not 100% certain, I believe that it has happened
at times when the focus is in the body. My usual pasting procedure is
to find the stuff to paste, and then find the location to paste it, so
I'd come back to the mail message and move the focus to the desired
paste point after coming back.

It is really strange, and happens only very rarely. It happened twice
yesterday, which brought me to searching for the solution... but it
had probably been at least a week before that without it happening --
hundreds of emails and pastes into emails.

Getting into the habit of filling in the recipient fields last is not
too hard, the problem is that most emails are replies to received
emails, which causes those fields to be populated up-front.

Just to reopen this topic, it happens to me as well on a random basis. I almost always alt tab back to my email from the "copy from" window and hit ctrl v. I know that I am not hitting an incorrect key combination. I am running with an application called SlickRun (which is a really awesome productivity tool) which does intercept keystrokes, but I quite doubt it would be the culprit.
I have gotten into the habit of adding a garbage address to the CC line, so the incidence of this happening is much lower. Still, there are those times you forget and it happens. Makes you go D'oh!