Why does my cursor keeps jumping around in word

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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:

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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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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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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2016-10-20T22:15:25+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.

I mentioned Lenovo specifically, because the hardware from them is usually much more consistent than the brands that you mentioned, as they are (we don't deal with consumer machines so that may vary) enterprise intended machines. This CAN happen on any brand... as long as it is using office. Actual hardware issues are possible, but this issue IN MY CASE is absolutely not hardware related.

I like how you blame the hardware as if it's impossible for the software to have a problem. If literally NOTHING else has any problem it is EXTREMELY unlikely that it is the hardware. It becomes impossible for it to be the hardware when I can take a hard drive with the faulty office on it, and boot it on another identical system (we have a dozen of the exact same PC - not close - EXACT) and it has the same problem, while the "faulty hardware" can boot the drive with the "not faulty" office and have no problems. A reinstall doesn't always fix it, because it's not a windows problem either... it's Office. Reinstalling office a bunch of times may eventually fix the issue, but not using office means the computer has no issues.

The most important part that you like to gloss over, is that it ONLY HAPPENS IN OFFICE newer than 2010. I could install 2010 on any of the machines with this problem and it works fine. It also never effects any other program

You obviously are not familiar with troubleshooting hardware, so I'm going to leave it at this. When someone intelligent comes along, maybe it'll get fixed, but for now it'll be an annoying bug that turns off users. If all you want to do is flame, that's fine, but you are helping nobody. Myself and others here would like to see this issue fixed, we don't care about **** excuses.
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