Spacebar not working on Word/OneNote (iPad)

Anonymous
2020-05-05T23:52:09+00:00

Hello. I am using an iPad Pro with an external Magic Keyboard, and I came to notice (quite quickly) that on the Microsoft Office suite the spacebar is not working when pressed/clicked on the keyboard. So, I come to ask, is there a way to solve this? Because currently it is kind of useless to use Word/OneNote and not be able to press the spacebar and have a space between words.

I think its possible that the problem is present since the Magic Keyboard is brand new hardware and Microsoft Office Suite may not recognize it yet. And it is a big deal and problem for note taking or word processing in general.

EDIT: Spacebar works properly only when pressing Option + Spacebar, quite annoying to have to do a command just to correctly use the spacebar, seems like a bug to me.

The problem is present on an iPad Pro 2020 11” with the Apple Magic Keybard (Spanish - ISO) running iPad OS 13.4.1and the latest OneNote/Word version.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-06-28T01:56:44+00:00

    Wow!  I thought I was the only one having that space bar issue in OneNote.  I used a Brydge Bluetooth keyboard, Apple Magic Keyboard and the new iPad Magic Keyboard and the issue persists.  This is definitely a OneNote issue that Microsoft needs to address. Moving back to Evernote for now.  Sigh.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-06-28T04:08:01+00:00

    Go to setting, the accessibility, on keyboard turn off full access. That solved my spacebar problem.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-06-29T14:06:36+00:00

    It solved the problem and I have shared it with others.

    Thanks

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-08-04T22:42:51+00:00

    This is a problem that OneNote needs to fix...not by altering the device.  When NO OTHER program has the problem EXCEPT OneNote, then OneNote is the part that is broken.  Fix it...and don’t tell me to change the way my keyboard works JUST FOR ONE PROGRAM.    I’ll go use something else, then

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-10-12T02:42:15+00:00

    Hi,

    Sorry if this is a late response but I think I have your solution.

    If you go your full keyboard access settings, you can enter specific commands for some keys. If you scroll down to the settings for “activate”, you can see it’s been pre-programmed by the space button. You can clear that specfic demand and keep the rest of your commands turned on. No need to turn off full keyboard access when you clear this specific command. Just fixed my problem with onenote.

    Hope this helped you.

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