Left & right arrow keys don't move the cursor (in teams)

Anonymous
2021-05-11T01:15:20+00:00

ft and right arrow keys have no effect in TEAMS BUT left-arrow + CTRL moves left one word, and right-arrow + CTRL moves right one word. So it is clear the arrow keys on the keyboard are functioning and sending signals to the computer. I also tried my laptop built in keyboard & the number pad. All have the same effect. What could be making the arrows by themselves not work?  (Up and Down arrows work normally.)

1.      Is it a laptop or desktop computer?
Laptop 

2.      What is the make and model of the keyboard?
HP laptop keyboard & logitech external 

3.      Was it working fine earlier?
Yes at most an hour before

4.      Were there any recent changes made on the computer prior to the issue?
No. Maybe I inadvertently hit some hot key?

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-01-24T11:14:37+00:00

    This worked for me too.

    How bizarre!

    Thanks for the post.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-01-24T16:09:34+00:00

    I also experience this problem from time to time... Not being the perfect typist, this causes me no end of pain...

    Please get it fixed.

    Kaine

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-01-26T08:47:39+00:00

    How can this still be an issue after this long? Note that the workaround of tabbing out of the box and back in worked for me, so it's clearly a bug in Teams. Fix it!

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-01-26T13:35:36+00:00

    Thanks. Worked for me! :-)
    Weird workaround that can be used while we are waiting for MS to fix this bug!

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-01-27T07:00:19+00:00

    BINGO, almost.

    Tab to move to the tools panel, lrlrlrl shift-tab did not restore L or R arrow keys.

    Tab to move to the tools panel, activating the '...' item, then ESCaping, then shift-tab did restore L and R arrow functions.

    The MS-Teams Chat textbox looks like it's got an unchecked state problem.

    Just repeating the best workaround to date here.

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