Why does my cursor keeps jumping around in word

Anonymous
2013-07-22T06:03:35+00:00

I purchased the new Office 2013 to work with the Windows 8 that came with my newly purchased computer (Lenovo.)

The issues is, which has been driving me crazy over the past two months, when typing on the Word 2013, my cursor keeps jumping around on the page. For example, in the middle of my typing a sentence, the cursor would jump to three lines above in the middle of a word and continues the my input there. Whenever I see my writing in word is not changing while I definitely was typing, I will have to stop and started to examine where the words have went. After I find them five or whatever lines above, I will have to delete them, use the mouse to click the end of the writing again and trying to retype and continue to type.

I can swallow the problem if it only happens once each document, but it happens 10+ times when I type a two-page essay. I don't think the newly developed software is making my life easier but the opposite.

Does this happen to anybody else? Any clues of why or any suggestions, please?

Thanks!

P.s., please note that besides the letter keys I hit on the keyboard, I did not hit on any other keys such as arrow keys. Especially knowing my cursor jumps around, I am extremely careful with hitting my keys. I do not touch the mouse pad, neither.

P.s., besides jumping to other places and start insert words, sometimes the cursor would select/highlight a line or half line. If I was not aware of the change and hit a space, the whole selected lines are gone. See, I didn't know how to select lines besides using the mouse, and I did not use the mouse but simply typing, so I am very frustrated with what my cursor does to me.

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Anonymous
2013-07-22T09:55:49+00:00

The issue is due to the touch pad sensitivity. You can reduce or disable the sensitivity of touch pad from control panel-> mouse -> mouse properties. If issue still persists, check with an external keyboard.

Follow Girish's suggestion from this link:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/in-word-2010-cursor-jumps-around-mixed-with/4aaa8443-1435-4973-b6b2-10d78a1fea22

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  1. Paul Edstein 82,871 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2016-10-20T21:34:43+00:00

    The procedure works fine for me on a variety of hardware - Asus, Dell, HP, Toshiba... The procedure clearly also works for most others.

    Evidently you're more interested in spleen-venting and finger-pointing than problem resolution... In that case, your problems are firmly located between the seat & keyboard.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-10-17T13:53:50+00:00

    Well TBH it's never fixed it for me, but other people mentioned it. Are you really that petty that you cannot admit this problem. I'm sure 9/10 Lenovo (desktop's don't have touchpads fyi)workstations we ordered from Lenovo all have terrible hardware that causes specifically office to do this. There is absolutely no way a hardware issue would cause Office and ONLY Office to have a retarded mouse cursor.

    Quit being a troll, if you have nothing useful to say, I'm done responding to your worthless posts.

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  3. Paul Edstein 82,871 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2016-10-17T10:27:43+00:00

    The mere fact that "reinstall of windows doesn't always fix it" - but sometimes does - proves it is NOT a Microsoft problem. Most likely you have dodgy hardware and/or touchpad drivers.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-10-17T09:43:37+00:00

    This has happened on multiple NEW machines(mostly desktops we prefer not to do laptops for business offices), and a reinstall of windows doesn't always fix it.

    If it is not an office issue, then why is this an issue that ONLY effects office?

    Also if I install Office 2010 on the same machine that had this issue with Office 2013/16 it works perfectly.

    The mere fact that you had a terrible touchpad or like to hit it with your palm, does not mean that this issue does not exist.

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