[Richard Toronto]

Every few minutes when I am writing a document (Word 2003) my insertion point
suddenly jumps forward or backward a few sentences within the document. I
usually do not notice at first, and continue writing, and this creates a fair
bit of confusion. I have tried to analyse the problem for months, thinking
there might be a certain string of characters that causes the jump, but I
have not been able to find a consistent pattern, other than the last typed
letter before the jump is almost always is a vowel. It happens when composing
emails as well as standard Word documents, and in this case the jump will
often be into the text of the original message to which I am replying, which
is of course in the message composition window.

Any guesses on what might be causing this, and how it could be remedied??

[Graham Mayor]

Laptop? You have an over sensitive touch pad. Keep your hands away from it
and don't bang on the keys so hard. Or turn it off and use a mouse.
It is also possible that you have voice recognition active and it is
responding to the microphone. Turn off the microphone.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Richard Toronto wrote:
Every few minutes when I am writing a document (Word 2003) my
insertion point suddenly jumps forward or backward a few sentences
within the document. I usually do not notice at first, and continue
writing, and this creates a fair bit of confusion. I have tried to
analyse the problem for months, thinking there might be a certain
string of characters that causes the jump, but I have not been able
to find a consistent pattern, other than the last typed letter before
the jump is almost always is a vowel. It happens when composing
emails as well as standard Word documents, and in this case the jump
will often be into the text of the original message to which I am
replying, which is of course in the message composition window.

Any guesses on what might be causing this, and how it could be
remedied??