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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:
Even a brand new computer may have a lot of programs installed, such as trial versions of poor quality antivirus software.
Have you tried starting Word in Safe mode?
To start in Safe mode, exit Word if it is currently running; then hold the Ctrl key as you restart the program. When prompted for Safe mode, accept. See if you notice any problems for the session running.
I restarted Word 2013 with the Ctrl key and put into safe mode. After opening an older document on my hard drive no issues. However, after opening another document on OneDrive it started to misbehave again. I have all my office programs set to automatically update to OneDrive, so now I'm wondering if that is the issue. I will get back once I've run a couple tests to see if I can replicate on all programs and the 3 computers.
Thanks Stefan for a half-way solution anyways;O)
Even a brand new computer may have a lot of programs installed, such as trial versions of poor quality antivirus software.
Have you tried starting Word in Safe mode?
To start in Safe mode, exit Word if it is currently running; then hold the Ctrl key as you restart the program. When prompted for Safe mode, accept. See if you notice any problems for the session running.
(Nothing else installed, not even a real web browser) - Literally nothing... MS Visual C++ is the only other entry on the system.
Safe mode makes no difference, both Word Safe Mode and on Windows Safe mode.
Btw this system is Windows 7 SP1
Even a brand new computer may have a lot of programs installed, such as trial versions of poor quality antivirus software.
Have you tried starting Word in Safe mode?
To start in Safe mode, exit Word if it is currently running; then hold the Ctrl key as you restart the program. When prompted for Safe mode, accept. See if you notice any problems for the session running.
THANK YOU! It was so disconcerting to type and all of a sudden, the cursor is 5 lines from where you were. I've disconnected it in the Control Panel, and right now, I'm typing at my normal fast pace. Now, I just have to find out if Pearson's software has become compatible w/Win 8.1, and I'll know the upcoming semester will be productive!
God Bless.