I feel confident that your touchpad is the culprit.
Sometimes, my touchpad will sense the slightest brush of my thumb.
Sometimes, if I even slightly move my thumb over the pad, it will actually
highlight text and as soon as I type another letter, it will replace all the
selected text with my next letter. I then have to hit Ctrl-z to undo my
mistake.
If you haven't used a laptop with touchpad before, it can be quite annoying.
I have found two ways to deal with it. First, before typing, use the
touchpad to move the cursor arrow to a benign area of the screen, such as a
blank area in the toolbar or menu bar. Then continue typing. If you brush
the touchpad, nothing will happen.
Also, in your computer settings, you can turn off the tapping feature of the
touchpad, so that you have to actually click the touchpad buttons. I don't
really like this solution as I find the touchpad tap feature useful (when I
actually want it.)
Virgil
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis E. Hamilton
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 1:14 PM
To: users@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: RE: Odd behavior in Writer
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>
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