My portable keyboard requires two taps of the space bar in Word

Anonymous
2025-05-26T14:31:04+00:00

Android Word app on a Samsung smart phone using an external portable Bluetooth connected keyboard. When I insert the cursor within the text of a document, tapping the space bar once will insert one space as expected. However, when I type a word, even just a single character and then press the space bar once, no space is inserted. I must tap the space bar a second time before the space will be inserted. Additional taps of the space bar will then insert a space for each tap, until I type another word. This behavior is only when using Word. Other Android MS apps such as Excel, or the Internet do not express this behavior. This only happens on this external keyboard when using Word. What might be causing this behavior?

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Anonymous
2025-05-29T19:27:56+00:00

Okay, someone on Reddit figured it out.

It has to do with the Samsung Keyboard. When you use a physical keyboard, a software keyboard is still utilized for layouts and such. It's specifically an issue with "Suggest text corrections" configuration within the Samsung keyboard. If I use the GBoard from Google, everything works fine without needing to change anything. I'm just not ready to change my touch keyboard typing habits to that of a whole new setup.

Instructions:

  1. Go to Settings
  2. Scroll toward the bottom for General Management
  3. Select Samsung Keyboard settings
  4. Toggle ON the option for Predictive Text
  5. Select Suggest text corrections
  6. Toggle OFF the switch next to English (US) (or whatever other language you are using).
  7. Try again.

I could repeatedly make it stop working and working again by just flipping that switch. I think it has something to do with the Grammarly plugin thingy for the Samsung Keyboard conflicting with something in Word app that is causing it to present something to do with Predictive Text that accepts a spacebar press to "exit".

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-05-29T20:31:59+00:00

    Thank you. I verified that it resolved my issue!!!

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