I'd recently rebuild my HD starting with the factory load on my IBM T43p,
WinXP Pro and then I installed Office 2003 (I transfered my office settings
from a backup I had done sometime ago) as well as a bunch of other
applications. At this point all office applications worked as expected.
Earlier today I noticed that when I left-click on a menu item in Word I
cannot get any of the functions in the dropdown to work when I left-click on
them. All of the other office applications work as expected. I booted into
safe mode and still the menu items do NOT work as expected in Word. While in
Word if I Alt+shortcut key and then arrow down to a menu item and press enter
it works. Any suggestions to get the left-click working correctly in Word?

Re: left-click doesn not work after clicking on a menu item by Terry

Terry
Sat Apr 14 03:04:58 CDT 2007

I believe this is an IBM pointer problem. You can diagnose if it is Word or
the IBM by plugging in a USB Mouse and testing. I think you will find the
USB mouse works. Also, I believe if you search on Google, you'll find other
reports and possible solution to the IBM problem.

--
Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP


"JGT" <JGT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3E6E9A25-AE13-4DA6-9DA6-7D2C82E9791F@microsoft.com...
> I'd recently rebuild my HD starting with the factory load on my IBM T43p,
> WinXP Pro and then I installed Office 2003 (I transfered my office
> settings
> from a backup I had done sometime ago) as well as a bunch of other
> applications. At this point all office applications worked as expected.
> Earlier today I noticed that when I left-click on a menu item in Word I
> cannot get any of the functions in the dropdown to work when I left-click
> on
> them. All of the other office applications work as expected. I booted into
> safe mode and still the menu items do NOT work as expected in Word. While
> in
> Word if I Alt+shortcut key and then arrow down to a menu item and press
> enter
> it works. Any suggestions to get the left-click working correctly in Word?


Re: left-click doesn not work after clicking on a menu item by JGT

JGT
Tue May 01 01:31:01 CDT 2007

Thanks for the reply - I don't know what the heck is going on but it now
works and to my knowledge I did not do anything to resolve the issue.