[Steve66]

When I am typing, if I break off to work something out the insertion point
will often vanish from the screen and the point I reached has to be reclicked
before the programme will accept more text.

[Cindy M.]

Hi Steve,

When I am typing, if I break off to work something out the insertion point
will often vanish from the screen and the point I reached has to be reclicked
before the programme will accept more text.

It's quite likely some other application window has received the focus in the
meantime. Perhaps your mouse clicked outside Word, or if you're using a laptop
with a touchpad the mouse pointer may have moved and you hit the touchpad
without realizing it. It's also possible you have some kind of third-party
software running in the background that's "stealing" the focus when it notices
your machine is "resting", in order to perform some task scheduled to run when
nothing else is going on.

In any case, I doubt the problem is with Word.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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