How do I stop word from opening another document when I am typing

[Guest]

I just got a new computer and am using Microsoft Word 2003. While I am
typing a letter several things are occuring; the font and the style changes
constantly, it indents automatically on something that shouldn't be indented,
and it seems to open a new blank word document automatically while I am
typing and pulls me off to the new document. Also, the Find/Replace feature
keeps popping up while I am typing. Please help because all of these pop ups
are slowing me down.

 

[Jezebel]

Sounds like you haven't come to terms with your new touch pad.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The opening a new document results from inadvertently pressing Ctrl+N.
Happens to me not infrequently and always startles me.

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

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[gurudrew]

It's that <CTRL> key. if you hit it instead of <SHIFT> you'll end up
starting all sorts of things.

 

[Opinicus]

It's that <CTRL> key. if you hit it instead of <SHIFT> you'll end up
starting all sorts of things.

I've had to deliberately disable a lot of control functions on my wife's
copy of Word because she often hits control instead of shift. On one
occasion she hit control-A and then replaced the entire contents of her file
with a single space. Without realizing it until it was too late of course

Since she uses the mouse rather than control functions, it's not a problem.

 

[Guest]

Thank you. Out of all the answers, yours was the most descriptive. I hope
you are right in my case and I am sure that you are. How do I disable the
control functions? I do notice that on this keyboard the <CTRL> key sits up
a little higher than the shift key. That would explain why so many things
were happening.

Becky