Re: [libreoffice-users] Jumping cursor

I agree with the others that you're probably brushing the trackpad 
accidentally.  However, simply moving the cursor doesn't change your 
position in the document; you actually have to click to do that.  If 
you're using the trackpad exclusively, as I do, you should be able to 
turn off just the tapping feature and rely on the buttons to do your 
clicking.

I'm not familiar with your particular machine, but I have a Sony Vaio 
and even putting pressure on the surface *beside* the trackpad can 
sometimes cause the cursor to move (the surface of the trackpad is the 
same as that of the rest of the keyboard; it's just indented for the 
trackpad -- works well most of the time, but I occasionally get the 
jumping cursor, as well, usually just as I'm clicking on where I *think* 
it is).

Incidentally, if you find the cursor is sometimes sluggish when you try 
to move it, it's probably the same root cause -- in my case, a heavy 
palm pad on the keyboard beside the trackpad.

Dave Liesse



On 2/24/2016 10:18, charles meyer wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop (about 7 years old) running Windows
> 7. It runs fine and I have no issues with it.
>
> However, when I type in text in a blank document in either Libre
> Writer or Word 2003 I’ll complete a sentence or so and then suddenly
> the cursor and the last few characters I typed jumps somewhere else in
> the plain text document.
>
> I’m not hitting (intentionally) any key to make it do that – it just
> jumps around the document at will.
>
> It never does that on the desktop in Libre or Word suggesting it may
> be a Toshiba or laptop phenomena.
>
> Has anyone ever encountered this and if so how did you fix it?
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> Charles.


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