Jumping cursor

[gailrolfe]

I am working on a booklet using Publisher for the first time. Most of the
text was previously done in Word and I just copied it into Publisher and now
am going through and updating it. I've been working on it for several days
with no problem and suddenly, still doing the same thing, my cursor is
jumping around to wierd spots. There are some sections of text where the
cursor will not even stop; other times, I have the mouse positioned and when
I click the cursor shows up several spaces away. Or I have cursor blinking
and hit delete to delete one letter and it deletes (or adds) letters a few
spaces away. I keep thinking it has something to do with the former
formatting but can find no way to reveal the previously imbedded formatting.
Has anyone had this experience or do you have any suggestions? Thank you,
Gail

 

[Mary Sauer]

Is your microphone enabled? Open the control panel, speech folder.

 

[gailrolfe]

Mary, in the speech folder there is only one tab called Text to Speech; it
doesn't say anything about microphones. But when I search around in Sounds,
I found a few pictures of microphones but nothing that really specified if it
was enabled or not. We've never used a microphone so it may never have been
enabled. I don't know if that helps? Gail

 

[Mary Sauer]

When speech recognition is enabled, the mouse can become erratic.
Turn Off Speech Recognition
1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2. Click Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options.
3. Click Regional and Language Options.
4. On the Languages tab, click Details.
5. Under Installed services, click Speech Recognition, click Remove, and then
click OK.
6. Click OK to apply all the changes. You may have to restart your computer.

This may help as well
Mouse Jumps or Behaves Erratically After Installing Windows 2000 or Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256043/en-us

 

[gailrolfe]

Thanks, Mary. I did that but there is no Speech Recognition listed to
remove. I'm beginning to suspect a bigger problem as I have tabs clearly set
which have worked without a problem the last couple of days doing exactly the
same thing I'm doing now but when I hit tab now, the tab stop is completely
ignored and the text jumps about three times as far as it should. I'm about
to go crazy. I did read the microsoft reference you gave me also but that
has to do with laptops and I'm on a desktop. Thanks anyway. Gail

 

[Mary Sauer]

The articles also suggest your BIOS may need a flash. Go to the manufacturer's
web site of your computer or mother board and look around for a BIOS update.

 

[gailrolfe]

Thanks, Mary. Today when I signed on, after giving up in frustration
yesterday, I haven't had any problem with the cursor...so for now I'm on to
other problems. Posting a new one now. Thanks for your help on this. Gail

 

[gailrolfe]

Mary, can you maybe help me on this: I seem to have problems getting the
pop-up window to open up when I click on "new"...I have the pop-up blocking
turned off on my computer (always) but for some reason on this site I seem to
have problems. Then suddenly on about the one hundredth try, it pops up. Is
there some place else I should be unblocking pop-ups? Gail

 

[gailrolfe]

Since I can't get a new window to open for now I'll try to post this problem
using the reply window and see if it works. A few minutes ago I think I
might have pushed a wrong key or something because a little tiny plus sign
appeared in my text box. I deleted it but ever since, there is a section of
my text that I cannot access on that page. I cannot move the cursor into it,
I cannot delete is or move it or cut it or copy it....it's as if it's
"locked" from change. I tried going back on "edit" and just undoing
everything but it made no difference. Any ideas on what I've done or how I
could fix it? Thanks, Gail

 

[Mary Sauer]

Are you talking about the Communities web pages? The plus sign usually means
there are other messages in the thread. I don't use the web for the newsgroup so
I can't be sure of your problem. When you have pop-ups disabled there is a
dialogue on the very top of the web page with a pull down where you can enable
pop-ups for that session. There is a pop-up check off in the Internet Explorer,
in Internet Explorer, tools, Internet Options, Privacy tab.

Have you thought about setting up the Microsoft newsgroups in your news reader?

news://msnews.microsoft.com