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
    2022-02-03T20:31:23+00:00

    Wow, that worked, unbelievable. Thank you.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-03T11:39:11+00:00

    seems to resolve the symptons and certainly less pain than reboot. But it's obviously not fixing the issue

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-01T15:53:21+00:00

    How is this not fixed yet?!!

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-01-28T10:38:05+00:00

    Interestingly it seems that the modified arrow keys still work - so CTRL+Left/Right still moves the cursor by a "word", SHIFT+Left/Right still selects by character, etc etc. Playing with such combinations does afford SOME relief from this ancient issue.

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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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