Hi Larry,

The point of Suzanne's question is this: When you type on a laptop,
your thumbs naturally rest on or near the touchpad. If the pad's
sensitivity is set too high, it can "see" unintended movements as
mouse pointer movements and clicks.

If the laptop has software for changing the pad's sensitivity, turn it
down as far as it will go and see if the problem stops. It may also be
possible to disable the touchpad and use an external mouse. Generally,
try to keep your hands as far from the touchpad as possible while
typing.

To be as explicit as I can be, there is no feature in Word that "moves
the cursor out of the way" or moves the display up and down as you
cross page boundaries. What you're seeing must have an external cause.

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Jay Freedman
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On Sun, 1 May 2005 09:28:03 -0700, "Larry"
wrote:

Yes, its a laptop with a touchpad.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

The cursor and the insertion point are the same thing. The mouse pointer is
something different, and there may well be a setting in your mouse software
(Control Panel | Mouse) to hide the pointer (not move it out of the way)
when typing, but that doesn't sound like the issue here. Is this a laptop?
Does it have a touchpad?

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Words into Type
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"Larry" wrote in message
...
I do know the difference between curser and insert and Im convinced that
it
has to be a setting. I know in wordperfect (if you will pardon the
expression) there is a setting asking whether you would like to have the
curser move out of the way when you type. But I cant find any sort of a
setting like that in Word.

It performs too consistantly to be a bug and I would be willing to
uninstall
and reinstall but Im not convinced that it wont be there again. It has
been
present for a long time, I honestly cant remember if it dates from the
original install. I simply wasnt typing enough to have it be a big hassle,
now it is.
Larry

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 19:48:49 +0300, "Opinicus"
wrote:


"Jay Freedman" wrote

wrote:

When I move the curser toward text it moves the text out
of the way, or the
curser jumps up a line so I can see better. This is
driving me nuts,
espeically when it pushes text down to another page. Im
sure there is a way
to turn off this cuser behavior, but I cant find it. Can
anyone help?

How are you moving the cursor? If you're pressing the
space bar, DON'T
DO THAT! Use the arrow keys, or the Page Up/Down keys or
the Home and
End keys.

That's a very ingenious diagnosis, Jay. But I still can't
figure out the part about the cursor jumping *up* a line.

OK, ingenious but wrong... ;-)

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Jay Freedman
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