My letters are jumping around on the page as I type

[lynnlaw]

Please someone HELP! I am writing a research paper and about every 5 letters,
additional letters that I am typing move around in the sentence. What can I
do? Thanks so much!

 

[Earle Horton]

Please someone HELP! I am writing a research paper and about every 5
letters,
additional letters that I am typing move around in the sentence. What can
I
do? Thanks so much!

Provide a more detailed explanation of what is happening? This is a
volunteer forum and we really have no idea what type of computer, which
operating system, or which version of Office (if you are even using Office)
that you are using.

Earle

 

[RIckP]

Hi,

I don't know if this will help, but I just had the same problem yesterday on
my SOny Vaio laptop. Everytime I typed a few letters, the cursor would go to
a different spot on the page and the I would be typing there. If I typed
very slowly, then it worked, but as soon as I started really typing it was
Garbage. It turned out that the Laptop had the wrong mouse driver installed.
It had a generic P/S2 mouse driver when it really needed the ALPS touchpad
driver. With the wrong driver, vibrations from typing were being interpreted
by the ALPS hardware as scroll commands and other non wanted commands. Make
sure you have the CORRECT mouse driver installed. If you are not using a
tablet machine, make sure you turn off the pen entry nd handwriting ans there
are pen flicks that do strange things if mis-interpreted. If yu are using an
external mouse and you also have a touch pad, make sure the touchpad driver
is installed first, then install the external (USB) mouse driver.

I hope this helps.... It worked perfectly for me. Thank you SONY technical
support! They did a good job of figuring out the problem.

Good luck!

RickP

 

[Earle Horton]

Another thing you can try in this situation, is to have the touchpad driver
disable itself when an external mouse is detected. I don't know about Sony
Vaio, but the touchpad on my Dell Inspiron can do this. This is a very
useful feature in my opinion.

Earle