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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:
If I turn on the touch pad mouse thing, it happens here in various applications, not just Word or Office, which in this machine means one of Office 2003, 2007 or 2010. It is of course more likely to happen with a word processing application because, generally, such applications are associated with a far higher number of key strokes.
Ok so you have an issue with your TouchPad, which the amount of keystrokes has nothing to do with. If you are hitting your TouchPad that's one thing but that's not the issue in the ongoing discussion. Especially since this can be a problem on desktops which don't have touch pads.
The amount of keystrokes is honestly irrelevant to either issue, besides meaning that you'll physically hit the touchpad more if that is your issue.
Most of the problems occur on new laptops. They would normally have the latest version of Word/Office installed, so it is no surprise to me that most posts are from users of Word 2013/2016. It does not make it an Office problem. You are confusing correlation with causation.
And you are jumping to conclusions. Maybe all the posts are about Office 2013/16 because the problem exists in those versions.
I am not jumping to conclusions. You are ignoring data. Which you are, of course, free to do.
This problem has been observed in all software that I know about since the development of touchpad pointing as a part of the keyboard. It goes away when adjustments are made to that sensitivity. On my current laptop, I frequently use a separate mouse and turn off the keypad.
Touchpads are not usually part of the keyboard at all, they are usually connected via a different cable in a laptop. The exception being trackpoints, which is only relevant if you have one. Unless you are referring to Mouse Keys (control the mouse using the numeric keypad), everything you just wrote is incorrect.
You are the one ignoring data (the posts that say they have desktops)
It does not have a touchpoint or trackpad. And it doesn't even have to have a mouse plugged in (which this issue still occurs with no mouse hardware attached)
Your issue is user error, for others it is not. In your case you should look for an option that disables the touchpad while the keyboard is in use. Most touchpads have that function as long as you are using the vendor supplied driver.
Touchpads are not usually part of the keyboard at all, they are usually connected via a different cable in a laptop. The exception being trackpoints, which is only relevant if you have one. Unless you are referring to Mouse Keys (control the mouse using the numeric keypad), everything you just wrote is incorrect.
You are the one ignoring data (the posts that say they have desktops)
It does not have a touchpoint or trackpad. And it doesn't even have to have a mouse plugged in (which this issue still occurs with no mouse hardware attached)
Your issue is user error, for others it is not. In your case you should look for an option that disables the touchpad while the keyboard is in use. Most touchpads have that function as long as you are using the vendor supplied driver.
I know what a desktop computer is, although my first one was horizontal rather than vertical and had an additional optional 360K floppy drive.
I'm glad you are so knowledgeable. Thank you for contributing your insight. Clearly, nothing I say is going to persuade you that others who have responded here know what they are talking about.