Cursor jumping

[Guest]

How do I stop the cursor from jumping around in word?

 

[Tony Jollans]

That depends on what's causing it! I know that sounds trite and obvious but
you aren't giving much to go on.

Two common causes of this are ..
1. Accidentally touching the touchpad of a laptop while typing
2. Having a speech to text engine enabled

 

[Guest]

The cursor is jumping all over the page. yo? You think I may be touching the
touch pad. I don't think I am doing that. Thanks, I try to keep from
touching it. It happen just then. I wasn't touchin the touch pad. I have
tried everything I can think of. It is anoying and wastes my time. What
that, Having a speech to text engine enabled.
help! Jan

 

[Guest]

The cursor is jumping all over the page. yo? You think I may be touching the
touch pad. I don't think I am doing that. Thanks, I try to keep from
touching it. It happen just then. I wasn't touchin the touch pad. I have
tried everything I can think of. It is anoying and wastes my time. What
that, Having a speech to text engine enabled.
help! Jan

 

[Guest]

I wish I knew the answer too. We have a user whose cursor jumps to the name
box in excel all the time. She uses arrow keys to get to a cell and starts
to type and the entry is going up in the top left in the name box. It is so
frustrating that she cannot work. She is NOT touching the touch pad and she
does not have any speech recognition going.
ANY WORDS OF WISDOM? Good luck dreamer12

 

[Tony Jollans]

I wish I could be more help but, barring malicious software and/or software
corruption, the cursor in Word (and Excel) responds to input from some
external source - keyboard, mouse, touchpad, microphone, I don't know what
else you might have - bar code reader perhaps. If none of these are
receiving human input perhaps there is a physical fault with one of them.

As no-one else has responded here, I presume other (known) causes are few.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

That is an entirely different issue. I would guess that the Excel user does
not have "Edit directly in cell" enabled on the Edit tab of Tools | Options.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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