Cursor is to select all (select mode forced) and I can not type - Windows 7 on a virtual machine

Hi all

I'm working on a Microsoft Virtual Machine, in the middle of a laboratory. (So I don't want to restart the whole machine - tho I'm and restarting all applications on the machine.)  the problem: my cursor selects all as my pointer moves on the screen of any Windows application is open. I've been using SQL Server Management Studio 2012, but the same is occurrin in Excel 2010. This translates into not being able to type just something - it destroys the stuff I already typed, obvviously, since it is the selection of stuff, I don't want to not selected.  I tried to hit the ESC key already. I looked with settings for sticky keys and toggle keys, and none of them seem to apply. I can't understand what I enabled and how to return to the normal insert mode. I searched help and there is nothing on the SELECTION MODE.

Help!

Thank you

Sarra

San Diego, CA

SHIFT + S got me off the problem - she did replace the text with a capital S so I guess all I had to do was something like, followed by a cancellation to get my back text that has been deleted by typing something. That took me to be stuck in mode 'selection '. I don't have the problem anymore.

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