Office 2007 Word And Outlook Question
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Samantha Thomas of Paisley Place writes in with this question. While we here at Lockergnome may not have all the answers, we extend this in hopes that one of you clever Gnomies out there might!
I found your Web site online and hoped beyond hope you could answer a few questions for me regarding a major problem I am having with Outlook and Word within the Office 2007 program.
The biggest and most annoying feature I cannot manage to stop is to force each of these two programs to remain with the cursor as I type instead of taking it upon itself to move the screen back to the top of the page without my doing so.
Is there any possible way to force these two programs to remain with the cursor as I am writing so I do not have to continue to stop, move the mouse to scroll back to where I am writing, then start writing again only to have it move again back to the top of the page, which requires me to stop once again to move the page back down to where I am typing using the mouse again.
I am a freelance writer and the constant stop and go of taking the mouse to put the program screen back where I am typing is driving me up the freaking wall not to mention cutting into a large chunk of my writing time and when it comes to writing in the freelance market, time is literally money. I have already had to stop something like four times to move the damned window back to where I am typing so I can actually see what I am typing instead of the top of this email. It is equally as bad in Word 2007. What is it with MS, did they think we didn’t need to see the screen? I mean I can understand the concept of not needing to see the keys as we type but it does not mean we do not need to see the freaking screen as we type to make sure all is well and nothing needs changing.
I would appreciate any assistance to stop this ridiculous and annoying behavior.
Warmest regards,
Samantha Thomas aka Paisley Place
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[tags]Outlook, Word, Microsoft Office[/tags]
7 Comments
James Pohle
April 17th, 2007
at 11:55pm
I write books and spend a lot of time in Office 2007. During this time I have not experienced this unusual behavior in either Office 2007 or Outlook.
Pat Carver
April 18th, 2007
at 5:55am
About Samantha Thomas. She does not mention if she is using a laptop computer, but I have had clients that report similar symptoms that have turned out to be inadvertent touching of the trackpad that reposition the cursor to another place on the page. In such cases I have gone to the mouse settings and turned off the tapping feature of the trackpad so that you must use the mechanical buttons to click or reposition the cursor. This is a complete shot in the dark, but I hope it helps.
Pat Carver
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James R. Bird
April 18th, 2007
at 9:17am
Greetings Ms. Samantha Thomas,
As to the question of the cursor jumping around seemingly at random and interrupting your work: If you are using a laptop computer, it may not be a software problem at all. Most modern laptops default to an active touch pad that reacts to a tap as if you had clicked the left mouse button. If you are touching that while you type it will indeed make the cursor jump to wherever the mouse pointer is and interrupt your work.
Now, while I can’t give you specific guidance on the fix, I can tell you that, if this is your problem, then you must seek a way to deactivate the touch pad. You may have to go into the BIOS “Setup” to do so, but I’d start with checking the control panel in Windows and click on “Mouse”.
Good luck and I hope this helps.
Best Wishes,
Jim Bird
jim vanderbilt
April 19th, 2007
at 2:17pm
If I want to send a letter.
When I click on “To” and type in the letter j I get a bunch of names as suggestions. I realize these are suggestions of recent addresses I have sent mail to in order to make it easier for me. The problem is some of these addresses are no longer valid or I don’t use them any longer and they keep coming up. How do I prevent this from happening? I love the feature but would just like to remove some of the addresses from this particular function.
Svend W
April 20th, 2007
at 9:49pm
To Jim Vanderbilt
Really stupid of MS that there is no intuitive way to remove them, they even keep appearing after you remove them from the address book.
Solution: Get the suggestions to appear and then right click on the name you want to remove and delete it. Simple when you know…
Peggy Birdsall
February 23rd, 2008
at 12:23pm
Yesterday, when typing on outlook, it started putting the “backward P” symbol and dots between each word that i type! I know i must have hit something to make it do this but for the life of me i can’t find how to turn this off!!! H E L P !!!!
Bill McLachlan
March 23rd, 2008
at 7:32am
In support of Samantha, I, too, am having this issue. Yes - on a laptop but with the touchpad turned off so it is not a hardware issue. It is quite annoying and even happens when I am dictating (Dragon Naturally Speaking).
BTW: To the person with incorrect email address entries appearing in the “To:” address field - these are not connected in any way to your address book entries - a totally separate database. When one appears, use the ‘down’ arrow to select the incorrect entry and then press the DEL key. It won’t bother you again.
BTW #2: the ‘backward ‘P’ is the paragraph symbol and the dots indicate spaces between the words - both non-printable characters. Look for the backward ‘P’ on the menu bar and click it. All non-printable characters will disappear from your doc.