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
    2016-10-17T06:05:32+00:00

    I have a laptop with both a touchpad and mouse (which I don't always use). Configuring the supplied driver to deactivate the touchpad when a mouse is attached does exactly what it is supposed to do.

    The mere fact it doesn't work for you does not suddenly make it a Microsoft problem. The problem you're having could be with due to faulty hardware, the supplied touchpad driver your mouse driver, a rogue third-party addin (Bluetooth drivers are notorious for interfering with Office), Windows installation or Office installation - or any two or more of those. You choose. Updating the driver(s), removing rogue addins, running the Windows System File Checker and/or repairing the Office installation might solve the problem, once again demonstrating that it's not a Microsoft problem, per se.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-03-31T12:53:25+00:00

    Thank you. I've had a look and there is no "Tapping Tab" anywhere in my Mouse properties or Control Panel anywhere. Not to worry, I am living with the problem and hoping that eventually there will be a magical update one day. And also a magical update to my muddy sound problem. Best not to go there!

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  4. Stefan Blom 352.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-11-07T23:14:29+00:00

    The manufacturer may not support Windows 10 for all of its computer models, yet.

    Anyway, assuming that you have upgraded to Windows 10 less than a month ago, restoring your previous version can be done via Settings in Windows 10. See http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/going-back-to-windows-7-or-windows-81-from-windows-10.

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