[Ed]

I get the same issue when I use a split screen on my desktop. The bottom
half will suddenly jump back to the beginning of the doc, as if I had just
opened a new doc. Could it be that Word views the new view as a new doc,
and opens it a the beginning? Then again, usually as long as I don't touch
anything until I click in the new screen, it's fine. But if I do anything
to cause a screen update - like change Zoom percentage, it will jump to the
beginning.

Ed

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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The most common reason for jumping is with laptop users with a touchpad
device. The over-sensitive touchpad only needs to be accidentally brushed
and it simulated a mouse click. If the document hasn't been edited, the
active cursor is probably still at the beginning of the document, so a
mouse click takes the focus back to the cursor (the beginning of the
document).

Ties is usually resolved by desensitizing the touchpad or disabling the
double-click simulation.

--
Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP

"Daniel-San" (Rot13) wrote in message
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Oh, Mighty MVPs....

In the process of editing papers, it is common for me to have more than
one version of the paper open (different filenames, obviously) to allow
me to flip back and forth between the versions, comparing as I go. Often,
when flipping to one from the other, Word jumps to the beginning of the
document. I have no idea why this happens, or if it is a Word-driven (as
opposed to Windows-driven) event. It's certainly not the worst thing that
can happen, but scrolling down and then finding where you left off is a
bit of a PITA. I've tried the Shift+F5 thingy, but I'm usually only
editing one of the documents, the other is merely there to see comments,
etc., so it has no effect.

Any ideas? I hope I'm not hallucinating.

Thanks,

Dan