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why a flickering cursor
Ok...this is weird. I am in a W 2003 document. When I go into a table to make
a change two things happen: The cursor starts to flicker and the open book icon on the status bar has the little pencil moving across continuously. It will let me add text to the table, but as soon as I stop editing, the flickering starts up again. I have saved the file and closed it; flickering starts all over again when I reopen it and edit. I have closed the file and closed Word. When I reopen the file and start making edits again, the flickering cursor is back. This is making me nuts! Also, exactly what is the little open book supposed to signify and what is it called ( I cannot find it in my Word reference book)? I've assumed it was to clue you in the Word was writing to the file or maybe checking the dictionary or something like that. Any ideas would be appreciated. |
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why a flickering cursor
The icon indicates that "Check spelling as you type" is operational.
Flickering in general just means that Word has too many balls in the air for the video driver to keep up with. Does the same thing happen if you switch to Normal view? -- 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. "cayce" wrote in message news Ok...this is weird. I am in a W 2003 document. When I go into a table to make a change two things happen: The cursor starts to flicker and the open book icon on the status bar has the little pencil moving across continuously. It will let me add text to the table, but as soon as I stop editing, the flickering starts up again. I have saved the file and closed it; flickering starts all over again when I reopen it and edit. I have closed the file and closed Word. When I reopen the file and start making edits again, the flickering cursor is back. This is making me nuts! Also, exactly what is the little open book supposed to signify and what is it called ( I cannot find it in my Word reference book)? I've assumed it was to clue you in the Word was writing to the file or maybe checking the dictionary or something like that. Any ideas would be appreciated. |
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why a flickering cursor
Well..the flickering stopped so I cannot try your view change suggestion. I'll keep this in mind should it rear its ugly head again. thanks Suzanne. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The icon indicates that "Check spelling as you type" is operational. Flickering in general just means that Word has too many balls in the air for the video driver to keep up with. Does the same thing happen if you switch to Normal view? -- 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. "cayce" wrote in message news Ok...this is weird. I am in a W 2003 document. When I go into a table to make a change two things happen: The cursor starts to flicker and the open book icon on the status bar has the little pencil moving across continuously. It will let me add text to the table, but as soon as I stop editing, the flickering starts up again. I have saved the file and closed it; flickering starts all over again when I reopen it and edit. I have closed the file and closed Word. When I reopen the file and start making edits again, the flickering cursor is back. This is making me nuts! Also, exactly what is the little open book supposed to signify and what is it called ( I cannot find it in my Word reference book)? I've assumed it was to clue you in the Word was writing to the file or maybe checking the dictionary or something like that. Any ideas would be appreciated. |
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