Highlight issues

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Phil J

We have an end-user that occasionally runs into a problem
where things will start highlighting in excess -
apparently on the latest incarnation, sentences started
highlighting and capitalizing themselves in Word, and when
someone else went down to look at it, they said upon
closing out of Word, multiple icons were highlighting on
the desktop when he tried to clear current selections by
clicking on an open area of the desktop. This is
hindering her when she tries to run something, for
multiple programs will execute.

I still haven't taken a look at it, my inclinations are
hardware failure, but it is a spotty issue. Just wanted
to see if there's anything software-wise I should take a
look at before I swap out her keyboard/mouse. Thanks for
any suggestions.

PJ
 
For Word - Word sucks and always tries to think for you way too much. You
can turn that nonsense off somewhere in the options though. It sounds to me
that this user likes to play around, screw things up, and then ask others to
fix it. For the icon thing, perhaps the user was playing around with the
active desktop settings and has things set to launch on a single click and
select items on hover.

Ray at work
 
Try using a different mouse... I had this problem with
Compaq Ipaq machines when non-compaq branded mice were
used.
 
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