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In every application on my computer, my cursor jumps around while typing. I can not type fast because I have toconstantly bring the cursor back to where I am typing (just did it again right now). Something is wrong and needs to be fixed. I am not technical and have no idea how to fix or what forum this question belongs in. Please advise.
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To all who have been having 'cursor jumps around while typing' problem. I had the same problem and had my Sony VAIO support team help me with it. They put in a fix that worked. Microsoft. It would be beneficial if you could contact Sony regarding this problem and access to the solution they put in place for me, since they seem to have found a solution to the problem.
Well, I don't know about that.
But now I have a new problem. My computer was blocked, a Microsoft Edge window comes up and I'm not sure it is Microsoft, phone call doesn't tell me anything. I can work around it, but who wants it there and what's going on? A ploy to get my information, control of my computer and hold it up for ransom?
Seems like you solve one computer problem and then another one crops up! Going to e-mail a friend for advice now. Hope he's more helpful this time than he was the last time. :-)
I only use the pad, no mouse is attached to my Surface.
No one had a solution to the disappearing, jumping, highlighting to delete cursor problem. I Googled, I watched YouTube videos, I ended up here. Some said they had solutions but they were apparently not universal solutions.
And when I looked at the mouse settings and thought about it the solution to the problem was pretty simple … as it usually is, while we tend look at the problem as if it is complicated, I guess.
Both the mousepad and the mouse connected via USB were active and somehow confusing the computer. I merely turned the mouse pad off (I hate the darn things) and saw that the mouse on the USB was being recognized. Now the problem is solved. The cursor isn't jumping, disappearing or (the real horror of it all) jumping to a word or paragraph to highlight it so that the highlighted writing was deleted via the next key stroke, whatever key, which was the weirdest part of the problem for me.
So anyone out there with the same problem, using a separate mouse but having a mouse pad on your laptop, here's a simple solution to try. And this from a knuckle-dragging technological Neanderthal! :-)
Jumping cursor/ Windows 10 Surface Pro 4
I have Microsoft Office 7 Pro
I don’t use 365
