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Unable to select/highlight text with mouse
I'm running Word 2003 on WinXP SP2. For some reason, my mouse seems to
longer work in the document pane. I can use it to select options from the menus and toolbars. However, I cannot use it to move the cursor in my document, or to select text. Neither left-clicking nor right-clicking work in the document pane. I have never experienced this behaviour before. |
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Maybe you activated the Select Objects tool (the big white arrow)
at the left end of the Drawing toolbar? If yes, then click on the Select Objects tool again to turn it off. Andrew wrote: I'm running Word 2003 on WinXP SP2. For some reason, my mouse seems to longer work in the document pane. I can use it to select options from the menus and toolbars. However, I cannot use it to move the cursor in my document, or to select text. Neither left-clicking nor right-clicking work in the document pane. I have never experienced this behaviour before. |
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Thanks garfield-n-odie,
Unfortunately that isn't the problem. Also, when I move the cursor over different parts of the pane, the cursor icon changes in the normal way (eg: at the far left of the pane, it changes to a right-pointing arrow; inside text it becomes an I pointed; at the top of table columns it points down; etc). "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Maybe you activated the Select Objects tool (the big white arrow) at the left end of the Drawing toolbar? If yes, then click on the Select Objects tool again to turn it off. Andrew wrote: I'm running Word 2003 on WinXP SP2. For some reason, my mouse seems to longer work in the document pane. I can use it to select options from the menus and toolbars. However, I cannot use it to move the cursor in my document, or to select text. Neither left-clicking nor right-clicking work in the document pane. I have never experienced this behaviour before. |
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Is the document protected for forms? Try Tools | Unprotect Document.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Andrew" wrote in message ... Thanks garfield-n-odie, Unfortunately that isn't the problem. Also, when I move the cursor over different parts of the pane, the cursor icon changes in the normal way (eg: at the far left of the pane, it changes to a right-pointing arrow; inside text it becomes an I pointed; at the top of table columns it points down; etc). "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Maybe you activated the Select Objects tool (the big white arrow) at the left end of the Drawing toolbar? If yes, then click on the Select Objects tool again to turn it off. Andrew wrote: I'm running Word 2003 on WinXP SP2. For some reason, my mouse seems to longer work in the document pane. I can use it to select options from the menus and toolbars. However, I cannot use it to move the cursor in my document, or to select text. Neither left-clicking nor right-clicking work in the document pane. I have never experienced this behaviour before. |
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Thanks Suzanne. The document wasn't protected for forms.
In the end, a reboot fixed the problem. But I never found out what caused it. Thanks anyway. Andrew "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Is the document protected for forms? Try Tools | Unprotect Document. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Andrew" wrote in message ... Thanks garfield-n-odie, Unfortunately that isn't the problem. Also, when I move the cursor over different parts of the pane, the cursor icon changes in the normal way (eg: at the far left of the pane, it changes to a right-pointing arrow; inside text it becomes an I pointed; at the top of table columns it points down; etc). "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Maybe you activated the Select Objects tool (the big white arrow) at the left end of the Drawing toolbar? If yes, then click on the Select Objects tool again to turn it off. Andrew wrote: I'm running Word 2003 on WinXP SP2. For some reason, my mouse seems to longer work in the document pane. I can use it to select options from the menus and toolbars. However, I cannot use it to move the cursor in my document, or to select text. Neither left-clicking nor right-clicking work in the document pane. I have never experienced this behaviour before. |
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