How to stop text moving to where cursor is sitting?!

[Ali]

Hello,

New lap top, when I’m writing e-mails/word etc. My text keeps reverting back to where my cursor is sitting on the document etc. Pain in the ass. How do I turn this feature off?!

Thanks

Ali

 

[Ronnie R]

What do you mean?

When your in a normal Word document and your cursor is say half way down the page, the cursor assigns that sport for text to be written?

 

[Ali]

Yeh, literally...But normally the cursor is sitting above what i've already written...So i end up typing text into text i've already written.

Does that make more sense??! I have minimal Admin rights on the laptop?! So may need IT to do this.

 

[Alex H]

Is the touch pad really sensitive and when you're typing furiously, you're brushing the touch pad with your manly palms and it's registering as a click?

 

[James172Cup]

Yeah, what alex said, i do it on mine occasionally, I'll be typing away when suddenly the text starts in the middle of something i already typed, took me ages to realise it was me touching the pad with my wrist as i was typing.

 

[Don]

Is the touch pad really sensitive and when you're typing furiously, you're brushing the touch pad with your manly palms and it's registering as a click?

Yeah, what alex said, i do it on mine occasionally, I'll be typing away when suddenly the text starts in the middle of something i already typed, took me ages to realise it was me touching the pad with my wrist as i was typing.

Its common...if you use a mouse, then you should be able to disable the touchpad in your BIOS.

 

[DazJ]

Try this
Start > Control Panel > Mouse > [click on Pointer Options tab] > deselect "Snap To" ("Automatically move pointer to the default button in a dialog box")

Hopefully this helps you

 

[Ali]

Daz, Thanks. Although it was deslected, which makes me think it was the previous comment...User error..>AKA me!!

 

[Ja5on]

boaby, ive got the exact same problem with my laptop, the auto snap has never been selected, I bough a blue tooth mouse and I dont seem to have the problem but as soon as I use the touch pad it seems to happen. Thats with the sensitivity turned right down aswell.

 

[Ali]

I'm on flexi now, so not even got a docking station.

 

[Ronnie R]

99% of computer problems are user errors

 

[Christopher]

Dirty Windows filth!

 

[Ali]

99% of computer problems are user errors

100% in my case mate! I is useless!

 

[DazJ]

that's what was the matter with mine and realised that the box had been selected

"computers are only as clever as the person using it" < can't remember who said that