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10-04-2020, 08:54 PM
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I was using my laptop earlier when I accidentally must have clicked on something and lots of little yellow vertical lines appeared between words - it sort of resembled yellow text cursors but over the whole page. You know how you can reveal formatting in Word - well a bit like that.

The page was frozen so I relaunched Chrome and all was back to normal.

I'm just interested to know what I did.
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10-04-2020, 09:32 PM
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I can tell you, Longie.....

You did something wrong, then you did something right.
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10-04-2020, 09:43 PM
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I've told you before Dongle, you're not safe playing on your own.
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10-04-2020, 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Right Now ->
I can tell you, Longie.....

You did something wrong, then you did something right.
Yes, that's what I think too. Try not to fall asleep on the keyboard again.
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11-04-2020, 06:32 AM
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I'm always doing stuff wrong here and end up bewildered....luckily a reboot usually solves it... it stays a mystery forever
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11-04-2020, 06:41 AM
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Thanks everyone.

I'll try not to fall asleep in future.
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11-04-2020, 08:53 AM
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How I love all the very helpful people on here!
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11-04-2020, 09:38 AM
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If you press various keys and key combinations on the keyboard, it can produce all sorts of different actions. I can't reproduce that effect though ..nor can I find anything on it.

Maybe it was done by pressing 'Shift+GH+ALT+Win+>' while holding the right mouse button down and gently humming Bohemian Rhapsody.
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11-04-2020, 11:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Longdogs ->
I was using my laptop earlier when I accidentally must have clicked on something and lots of little yellow vertical lines appeared between words - it sort of resembled yellow text cursors but over the whole page. You know how you can reveal formatting in Word - well a bit like that.

The page was frozen so I relaunched Chrome and all was back to normal.

I'm just interested to know what I did.
That's the trouble with using ancient laptops, LD.

Some are so old that they have Japanese war material hidden behind the screen.

It comes up as yellow marks, if you go in there.

Exactly 24 hours later, it explodes.
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11-04-2020, 12:21 PM
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I told you longy, not to go on the “ surgical wear for the fuller figured lady” website....
 
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