My experience is that if the hand is resting on the laptop surface, the touchpad can detect pressure on the case as movement. The symptoms are exactly as described.
Try working with the hands not resting/pressing on the case. The USB mouse is still a good idea, although it doesn't deactivate the touchpad from side pressure responses. (It removes one hand from resting on the laptop case though [;<). - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Rory O'Farrell [mailto:ofarr...@iol.ie] Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 09:42 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Odd behavior in Writer On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:33:04 -0500 Dale Erwin <d...@casaerwin.org> wrote: > I have recently (last October) acquired a new laptop and got rid of my > desktop. It's a Dell with Intel quad-core processor, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD > running Win 7 Home Premium. I believe that when I installed OpenOffice > on this machine it was the first time I had used version 3.4.1. I think > my desktop had 3.3 on it but I can't swear to that. The reason I > mention this, is that I'm not sure which is to blame for this behaviour, > OOo or the new laptop. > > I am editing my book manuscript which has a master file and over 50 > individual chapter files. Anyway, this is what is happening: When I am > in the midst of editing a file, the cursor will jump from it's position > to some other seemingly random position with no warning... even if my > hands are not touching it, so I know it is not something I am doing by > accident and not noticing. > > Also, I keep all the files set at View -> Zoom -> Variable 120%. For > no apparent reason, with no input from me, the size will change or the > file will shift position in the window.Sometimes it does both at the > same time. > > This is very, very, very irritating. > > -- > Dale Erwin, Such behaviour was reported on the Forum when AOO 3.4 first came out (or else OOo 3.3 - I'm not certain). It appeared as if it might have been due to inadvertent contact with the touchpad; as a temporary solution I suggest plugging in a USB mouse and covering the touchpad with a piece of heavy card, taped on, card thick enough to mask any touchpad contact. This ought quickly establish if the culprit is the touchpad; if so, then you might adjust its settings to render it less sensitive. In doing this temporary masking, you haven't altered any settings, simply physically masked off the touchpad. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
