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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:
It's a hardware issue and you will need to fix it by disabling the touch pad completely.
I just wanted add my ME TOO to this thread. And, not my ME TOO to the proposed fixes being helpful. I have Dell Inspiron 3542. I'm running windows 8.1 and MS office 2013. I have mouse sensitivity turned down under what Dell calls Palm Rejection. Mine does occur in other apps and editors. I'm writing a now 70,000 word book in MS WORD and not once in the last 5 months has it NOT occurred. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. It will jump a paragraph up or 4 words back or two lines down on a blank page. I've tried turning off the glide pad mouse altogether and going with a wireless traditional mouse. No resolution. This is a clear problem and I shouldn't even have to wait till July for the free upgrade to 10. Which, if that doesn't fix this issue, then I will change religions and go with Android or Apple, free upgrade out of the calamitous 8.1 or not.
I have this issue as well as my cursor appears active, and I cannot select text. If it was just my laptop that would be great, but it is all 3 of our computers, 1) Win7 desktop with NO touchpad, a wacom tablet and a marble mouse, 1) Win 7 desktop with NO touchpad and a laser mouse, and 1) Windows 8.1 laptop with a touchpad and usb mouse. I have uninstalled and reinstalled all the above, even to reformatting hard drive and starting over on 2 of them.
I do not have the issue with any other software unless I use it after using Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint OneNote or Outlook 2013. If I refrain from this software, I can work all day long without issue in text editor, graphics software, email, etc. It certainly would be nice to get this issue solved, as it is a wide-spread problem.
I am using a Desktop at work, Windows 7, Office Professional 2013. There are 3 other desktops on my floor that have the same issue. I have read many many threads on this topic with no real solution. Most of them state that it is a Laptop issue only. I was just making a comment that it is not limited to laptops alone.