Microsoft Word/skipping around

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Expert: Aidan Heritage - 10/31/2009


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Hi Aidan,
I bought a new dell laptop in march and am having an issue with the cursor jumping around when I try to type documents, email , etc.  I will be writing and suddenly the cursor will jump to another part of the document for no apparent reason.  What am I doing wrong?  Hitting a certain key in error?  It drives me crazy as I sometime don't notice it's happened again until I'm far along.

Thanks for any help.
Kath

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This is an issue with the laptop rather than the software - as I haven't got a dell I cannot be certain what the reason is but this search may help

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=dell+laptop+cursor+jumping&meta...  
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