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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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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:
No, I haven't, but this only happens in Microsoft Office (specifically Outlook, Word, and Excel, I rarely use the others). It doesn't happen in Sage Accounting software, Internet Explorer, Firefox, or notepad. It only started about a week ago. I was using Office 2003 when it started. I owned a copy of Office 2016 so I upgraded thinking it was a glitch and 2003 isn't supported any longer.
What bothers me the most is that when I right click to copy, paste, or do something else in the mini toolbar, the toolbar disappears before I can select a command. If my spreadsheet is sitting idle and I'm not touching the mouse or keyboard, you can see sections of it "twitching".
What bothers me the most is that when I right click to copy, paste, or do something else in the mini toolbar, the toolbar disappears before I can select a command. If my spreadsheet is sitting idle and I'm not touching the mouse or keyboard, you can see sections of it "twitching".
I just copied and pasted the above paragraph and had no problem whatsoever with the mini tool bar. The cursor hasn't jumped a single time while I've been typing this reply. It only happens in Outlook, Excel, and Word.
Hello fellow frustrated ones,
I started with this problem about 2-3 months ago (around September 2016) after an automatic Windows 10 update was made by Microsoft. I am an editor and writer, and you can imagine my frustration when I found my cursor jumping around. This not only began in Word 2013 but also on Yahoo while composing email.
I touch type and being that I infrequently look at what I type, you can imagine my horror in seeing all the gibberish because my cursor inserted itself at different times in different places, messing up words and sentences.
Since my 2015 Dell latitude laptop was working very fine there is no reason to conclude that the mouse pad is suddenly bad or being touched while typing. Too many people have the same problem and repirted it on other sites. It has nothing to do with accidentally touching the mousepad while typing. Therefore, disabling the mouse is not a fix. There is some kind of bug that Microsoft needs to fix.
Today I was online with a conscientious Dell tech for nearly 3 hours --yes 3-- you read it correctly--trying all sorts of things as he had control and could see the cursor jump around.
Not only that, but when something goes on in the system, the cursor blips and blinks wherever it is, sending my emails in the process of being composed, opening ads, whatever.
When he had me plug in my external mouse, lo and behold the jumping stopped. I could still use the mouse pad. But this is not a fix as I do not want to move around with a Logitech mouse attached to my laptop to work around an obvious software/ hardware ( driver?) glitch. More importantly, why should this be such a problem in the first place?
Its a disaster. It is occurring on other computers as well, including my HP desk top bought in mid 2014 which has Windows 10.
And you will see that the same craziness had occurred in the past years.
Can't somebody in Microsoft please help us? Can there be a check of the Windows 10 system update in September or early October, 2016 so a bug fix can be initiated ?
And my first computer would have crushed you to death if the table/desk it was on broke, but that's irrelevant.
Someone else can educate this guy, I've got better things to do.
If you become able to actually contribute I'll still be around.
I appreciate the fact that emails are not Microsoft Word, however, in my previous post I related that I can use any program (including email outside of Outlook) without the issue UNTIL I open one (any one) of the 2013 Office programs. After that I can no longer use other programs without the issue also. Almost like it's stuck to an "on" position and won't release the cursor....and NO I do not have a touchpad on my desktop. Matter of fact I replaced my tablet and marble mouse with another mouse to attempt a cure...only to see I've wasted my money. The problem never starts in another program at all if I do not open Office....which I do have times like that. Only once I've opened an Office 2013 program. In fact, I can work in Office 2007 without issue until I open a document created or saved in Office 2013. I'm thinking the resolve may come by just not renewing and go back to the old version and resaving my documents in the old doc format.