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Tab button produces a blue box around paragraph.

Whenever I use Tab button , or Spacebar and Enter sometimes, I get a blue box around the text. Using the Tab again moves the box to different spots on the page.


I noticed it first in MS Word for Mac but I can also recreate the same thing on any page.


Two fixes I saw on web were using Control F7. Nothing happened the box is still there. Another person said to go into Sys Prefs and select "Keyboard & Mouse". I have OS 12.1 and there is no such thing, it's either "Mouse" or "Keyboard". I selected Keyboard but could not find the radio button they said to select. :(


Any thoughts?

iMac 27″, macOS 12.0

Posted on Jan 24, 2022 5:17 PM

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Posted on Jan 24, 2022 7:35 PM

There are two places that have similar effect.

One is in Keyboard System Preferences, Shortcuts tab, Use keyboard navigation …

The other, and most likely since it selects a paragraph, is Accessibility System Prefs, Keyboard, Navigation, Enable Full Keyboard Access.

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Tab button produces a blue box around paragraph.

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