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    - Word closes Since I have been using Office 2003, with a lot of programs and word docs open at the same time, I have been experiencing closing of all documents without save prompts, and thereby losing documents. It has never happened to me with other versions(XP or 2000) of office, HELP I lost a huge important document a whole day's worth of work. Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73131
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    - Normal Formatting has changed My computer had a glich in the middle of a word doc. When work restarted, the document doesnt display the margins at the top or botton of the page in "outline" view. The cursor appears to be at line 1 of the page ( on the screen). When I print the doc., the margin is correct. How do I get the margin to display correctly on the screen again???? office XP, windows XP Pro. Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73127
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    - Clean Uninstall Word 2000 mysteriously corrupted. Uninstall/reinstall not helping. How can I do a complete, clean uninstall? Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73126
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    - Product Activation problem When I click on the product activation program under the Start menu, the screen appears but I get the message 'Wait while screen intializes'. It will sit there for an eternity until I close it (I have waited for 15 minutes and nothing - no form or error messages appear). I am at my witts end .... what do I do next. I am using MS Works Suite 2004 on Windows XP. Thanks in advance. Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73118
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    - Error notification while copying When attempting to copy a PDF folder or file from a CD to My Documents I get the following notice " Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy Check)" Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73115
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    - Word 2000 Pro Crashes I have just installed office 200 Pro and any time I try to open word, it crashes. I have tried to open in the troublshooting mode using the winword.exe /a but the the same problem occurs. This is the same with the other office programs, excel, powerpoint, access and the others. Can anyone help me on what to do. My thought is it might be a hardware problem but I have not installed any device to it and before I installed office, the PC was running smoothly. Thanks in advance. Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73113
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    - Word 2002 icon is missing I installed Works Suite 2002 some time ago. It included Word 2002. I recently had a problem so I uninstalled and re-installed Word 2002. Now I cannot find the icon anywhere. It is not on the desktop nor the applications menu. I have tried uninstalling and re-installing both Works Suite and Word multiple times. But I still cannot get to the Word 2002 program. All of the other applications seem to be there fine. One more thing, if I go to the Control Panel ==> Add or Remove Programs Widows displays Word 2002 and will let me remove it. Therefore, the application appears to be loaded. I just cannot get to it to run it. Thank you for your help, Rick Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73112
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    - Word 2000 start up error After downloading and installing Adobe Reader 6.0 I get an error every time open and close Word and Excel. In Word I get "Compile error in hidden module: AutoExec" In Excil I get "Compile error in hidden module: AutoExecNew" How do I fix this? First I deleted the Normal.dot file - didn't help. Then I uninstalled and reinstalled Office - It didn't help. Both programs are functioning ok but I suspect they will give me grief some day if I don't fix the error. Any ideas will be appreciated. I'm using Win 98SE. Both 98 and Office have all the current updates and Adobe Reader 6.0 is working just fine. Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73109
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    - Word 2003 Selection object error (VBA) Hello! I have a macro that use selection find to do some automate replace on a document, called First.doc Anyway, if I have another document opened (Second.doc) and selection on that is somewhere in the document... If I use the macro to replace something in First.doc document, the selection is reset to the beginning of the document is second.doc wich is inactive.!!!! Anyone encountered this error on vba macros when using Selection? -- Cheers, Crirus ------------------------------ If work were a good thing, the boss would take it all from you ------------------------------ Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73100
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    - Error in I am getting the following error when attempting to send the document as an email from Word (and Excel, as well): Word could not load e-mail envelope. This could be caused by a network connection problem or a problem with your Office installation. I check the following web site and found the directions didn't solve the problem. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=240813 I am running Outlook 2003 with Office XP. Any suggestions? Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73097
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    - Registration Code I am switching from a desktop to a laptop and have lost my registration code card for MS office. It is the educational version of Office xp. I tried typing in the number you find under help - about Word but it doesn't work. Can anyone tell me were to look. My OS is Windows XP. thank you very much Darren Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73092
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    - word cannot open the document: user does not have access privileges when i try to edit an equation in word 2003, i get this message: word cannot open the document: user does not have access privileges if you know how to fix this, please respond! thanx Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73089
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    - 2003 error "object dosen't support this property or method" Acrobat 6 installed first then 2003 ofice upgrade on top. Any thoughts? Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73088
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    - Word 97 double click file and another version of word opens I have read: "If you find that Word files do not open in the desired version of Word when you double-click them in Windows Explorer, or that when opening them from the Desktop or Explorer, a series of messages appear claiming that the file cannot be opened, such as: "Cannot open C:\My" "Cannot open "Documents\The" "Cannot open "Test.doc"" .. you need to re-register Word. To fix the problem: Word 97 and above Click Start | Run (bottom- left corner of your screen). In the "Open" box, type: winword /r and press Enter. Note that there is a space before the forward slash" Unfortunately when I run winword /r or winword /a the messages says "cannot find winword". I have XP Home and have uninstalled both Works and Word 2002 now all my file want to open in Wordpad. How do I get my files to open in Word 97 from Office 97? Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73087
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    - Document Corruption in offline folders since upgrading from Windows 2000 SP3 to SP4. Running Office Professsional SR1. When editing documents offline they corrupt as they sync with the online file store. Any ideas thanks Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73086
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    - word 2003 I persistently get visual basic error message 13 and others when closing word 2003. Running win xp pro ver 2002 sp1 on a pentium II 450 Mhz. Running NortonSystemworks 2003. I have run repair from the installation CD but error remains. Run-time errors of various sorts occur on other occasions. Help please Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73080
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    - Microsoft Visual C++ Debug Library: Debug Error For a few days now and several times a day, Microsoft Word (Office XP) fails and quits when I try to save or close a document or when I try to exit the application. Each time the following message appears: Microsoft Visual C++ Debug Library Debug Error Program: C:\ProgramFiles\MicrosoftOffice\Office10 \WINWORD.EXE abnormal program termination (Press Retry to debug the application) The only time I tried "Retry", the application quit anyway. Sometimes, Windows XP sends an error report but so far I haven't received any feedback. Any ideas about what might be going on and how to fix it? Thanks for your attention, Luis Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73079
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    - Microsoft Visual C++ Debug Library: Debug Error For a few days now and several times a day, Microsoft Word (Office XP) fails when I try to save a document or when I want to close the document or exit the application. Each time I get the same message: Microsoft Visual C++ Debug Library Debug Error Program: C:\ProgramFiles\MicrosoftOffice\Office10\ Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73078
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    - Converting to Adobe Acrobat - Word error I have been using Adobe Acrobat 5.0 (distiller) to convert Word documents to PDF format. The document I am working on now has quite a few internal hyperlinks and cross- references. I am trying to convert it and Word keeps aborting with "Runtime Error. Winword.exe abnormal program termination". The only way I can convert it to PDF the way it stands is if I turn off the Convert Document Cross-Links option in Acrobat Conversion Settings. That of course defeats the purpose of having the cross-links in the document! I was able to convert the same document a few days ago when I tested it. Since then I have 1) upgraded IE to 6.0, and 2) added another chapter to the document with more hyperlinks and cross-references. Any suggestions or ideas as to what is causing this would be most appreciated!! Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73075
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    - Error on start up after Word download Downloaded the elegant brochure template now I get on startup: "bameter file is linkjed to missing export SETUPAPI.DLL:SetupDIEnumdeviceInterface and 2 copies of Notepad headed Ttembed-Notepad Also Document file now loads without access to thumbnails and cannot use HP 9323C printer since it shows Use printer offline and I cannot uncheck. Any clues to rectify any or all of above please? Ian Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73074
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    - all files are 'unavailable' Cannot open any files - says 'unavaible' - and keeps defaulting to normal template.....won't let me exit word until template is resave Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73071
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    - C/P from IE6 to Outlook XP generates PDF icon Hello, When I Paste text from IE6 into Outlook New Message instead of the text I get a graphic that says PDF. It is not a Adobe file. Rather it is a picture with the letters PDF and the colors are not the Adobe PDF red. I uninstalled Acrobat 6 and reverted to Acrobat 5. Any ideas on how to fix? Thanks Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73068
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    - Scrolling I have 2 PCs configured exactly the same. On One PC when I scroll through a document it runs smooth as is supposed to. On the other the the document jumps 3-4 lines or pages and is hard to read. These PCs had recently been reformatted and reloaded. Previously the other was hard to scroll. I have checked the scrolling setting on the mice of each and they are configured identical to each other. Any Ideas? Thanks, Kevin Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73067
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    - Security message When I open a word file that has already been created I get the following message. C:\...\file name.doc is being used by Second Computer. Do you want to make a copy? If I cancel it lets me do whatever I want. If I click OK it takes me to the file but I cannot find a copy of it anywhere. I am running XP. I had a win 95 computer that I copied my files from but this happens with new docs I create. How do I stop this from happening? Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73065
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    - =?iso-8859-1?Q?All_characters_in_the_file_turn_to_a_'=FF'_character?= In MS-Word 2002, XP Professional At several times over the past six months, I've=20 experienced a corruption of files in which all characters=20 in the file turn to a '=FF' character. =20 Attempting to recover text returns an empty file. How can I fix and avoid this? Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73064
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    - Mail Merge Tool Bar Malfunction I'm on Word 2000. When I click on the Tool Bar, I get a seemingly endless stream of "mailmerge" listing (as shown below0 making it difficult to access various Toolbar functions such as "Customizations" and "Options". Does anyone have a recommendation? Dan mailmerge... mailmerge... mailmerge... mailmerge... Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73061
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    - Cannot fathom the Office Updates failure. Error! Unable to check for updates on this computer The Office Update site is unable to check for updates on this computer. This may be happening because of one of the following reasons: You do not have administrative privileges for this computer. There is a network problem and the detection catalog used by the Office Update site failed to download. Go back to the Downloads home page and try running detection again. Windows Installer patch files (.MSP files) from previously applied Office updates are missing from the \Windows\Installer hidden directory on your computer. MSP files are stored on your computer after update installation completes because they need to be referenced for future update operations. If the files are missing you will not be able to apply Office updates. You may also be unable to uninstall Office products as a result of the same problem. Please contact Microsoft Product Support for assistance. You installed Office updates in the past and then upgraded from Windows Installer version 1.0 to Windows Installer version 1.1. For more information see the KB article Windows Installer May Prompt for Install Source if Unavailable. Search for Office updates in the Download Catalog Report the error to Microsoft Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73059
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    - Material disappearing on screen I will be typing in a document and part of the material disappears. An ideas. Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73058
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    - MS Word 2000 freezes I run Windows 98 (not SE) and installed Office 2000 recently. MS Word opens fine but I cannot use any of the utility features such as page set up. As soon as I click on page set up Word freezes up and I have to use TaskBar to get out of it. TaskBar says Word is "Not Responding". I never had any trouble with Word 97. I have run antivirus, defragged, uninstalled and reinstalled Office 2000, downloaded and installed patches from the MS site and it still continues. Seems like there is a compatibility issue between Windows 98 and Office 2000 that surely someone else has experienced. Any ideas? Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73057
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    - error opening Word I cannot open Word. First I got an error message not enough memory then I got an error message "kernel 32 caused a general protection fault in module krnl386.exe at 0000:000075a2. Also got Explorer error message at same. Any suggestions? Thanks. Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73055
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    - XP Frontpage running word I have word XP and lost the program file for the Frontpage that runs it, and I gave the office package disk to someone and they dont know where it is. Is there any way for me to get just frontpage back and not re-buy Office? Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73050
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    - Compile error in hidden module: modShadowMacros File Open generates the above error message. I used Detect and Repair to no avail. I then did a reinstall and that didn't work either. Both generated error messages relating to ODBC problems. The msgs referred to missing files in applications "Access" "Visual Fox Basic" that I have never had. Any thoughts? Thanks Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73049
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    - winword error 1084 word cannot open this document template when I open winword an error 1084 appears with the message "word cannot open this document template". What can I do to get rid of this message. I use word 7. Thanks Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73046
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    - slow running word Hello, Word 2000 was running very slowly (starting and terminating the program, opening and closing documents and print preview). Installing Word 2003 the problem has been worse. Any suggestions? Thanks! Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73045
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    - Error message OS: Windows XP Program: Word2000 AMENDED TO SAME POST EARLIER: saw instructions to another user to try the "winword /a" switch. Tried this--same error message appears. --Jeff Every time I open my Microsoft Word 2000 program, after about 5 seconds I get the following pop-up error message: "Microsoft Word for Windows has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." I have downloaded all the updates suggested by Microsoft, and tried reinstalling the entire Office2000 Small Business, but this has not fixed the problem. I can actually move the pop-up to the bottom of the page and do some things on a file, but certain operations cause the program to freeze, and then I'm forced to exit Word. On occasion, I've gotten the identical message when working in Excel2000 (part of the same Small Business suite, of course.) Don't know where to go from here. Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73037
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    - Microsoft Word 2000 david.talling@ntlworld.com Word has worked OK for over 2 years but now refuses to load. When clicking on the Word icon, the licensing screen appears but nothing else happens. The same occurs if clicking on Start, Programs, Word. I have also tried uninstalling Word and reinstalling Word. An early solution will be gratefully received. Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73036
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    - Error message OS: Windows XP Program: Word2000 Every time I open my Microsoft Word 2000 program, after about 5 seconds I get the following pop-up error message: "Microsoft Word for Windows has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." I have downloaded all the updates suggested by Microsoft, and tried reinstalling the entire Office2000 Small Business, but this has not fixed the problem. I can actually move the pop-up to the bottom of the page and do some things on a file, but certain operations cause the program to freeze, and then I'm forced to exit Word. On occasion, I've gotten the identical message when working in Excel2000 (part of the same Small Business suite, of course.) Don't know where to go from here. Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73035
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    - NO Spell check or thesaurus I had to reinstall word97, could not get it to start. Finally got Word where it will open and does its "normal" thing. only now i do not have spell check or thesaurus. I tried reinstalling them but still nothing. HELP!!!!!!! Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73034
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    - Word document web link won't open IE When I click on a valid web link that has been pasted into a Word document it does not open IE and displays this message: "unable to open" and then shows the web link followed by "cannot download the information you requested". In the past I have been able to click on links and it would open my IE and go to the site. What am I missing? Thanks! Jim Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73022
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    - Blank doc gets corrupted I suddenly have a problem with MSWord97 SR1 Open Word to a blank doc Save it Re-open it, and it contains a bunch of text starting with the following: Normal Normal Heading 1 Heading 1 Default Paragraph Font Default Paragraph Font Hyperlink Hyperlink I have renamed/deleted Normal.dot several times with no affect whatsoever. I've checked/unchecked Fast Save... no change. I have searched the web, including Microsoft's site, and so far haven't found a solution. Can anyone here help? Larry ngc[remove]w57@cwnet.com Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73021
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    - "Auto Recovery Save" Malfunction As usual, I frequently saved the file. While moving around some MS word graphics, Word started working very slowly. I closed the files, then closed the program, then powered down and automatically restarted. When I went back to Word to open the file, I couldn't find it??? Then found an Autorecovery save in the "Recent documents" on the start menu. I click on the icon and get the following message. "The drive or network connection that the shortcut 'Autorecovery save of my file name.lnk' refers to is unavailable. Make sure that the disk is properly inserted or the file network is available." I have unsuccessfully tried searching several times for the .asd file, for files with similar names, but couldn't find it even in the "hidden files." Where should I look for the missing file? Do you have any recommendations? Thanks. Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73020
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    - ERROR mouse touching TOOLS "crash" I open word and touch "TOOLS" to spellcheck or make an envelope and crash The next time I open word the document is missing and the Document1, Documents2, ect are missing and the document number advances. I've removed the program and reinsalled, Any help out there will be greatly appreciated Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73018
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    - I need immediate help! I lost a document on Microsoft Word that I have been working on for months. I accidentally overwrote the document with something else. Now I fear that it is lost forever. I can't rewrite it all because the original document was over one hundred pages and took me over four months to work on! (It was a screenplay, by the way.) Has anyone ever experienced this? If so, is there a way to find the overwritten document? I am just beside myself with grief, that I may have lost forever something that I put my heart and soul into. Any help is most appreciated. Thank you. By the way, this is my first time here, and I'm not sure where this topic goes. Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73017
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    - File Tab does not work when i try to open the File Tab it wont open it it just appears anmessage: "Microsoft Word has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Error Signature: AppName: winword.exe AppVer: 10.0.5815.0 ModName: winword.exe ModVer: 10.0.5815.0 Offset: 002d00cc is anything i can do?? I remove the progam twice and still does the same thing. I check the disk and it does not have any problems...running word 2002 Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73015
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    - Word quits out every time I use it I recently got Office 2000, so I installed it and everytime I open a document, start a new one, or just open it and do nothing Word, Excel, Frontpage - everything Office related gets the same error "Word has encountered a problem and needs to close". It has already cost me a grade in several classes because I can't turn anything in typed! I tried uninstalling/reinstalling .. uninstalling/Installing Office 97 (same message) .. The next step is reinstalling windows - which by the way I am going to change to Windows 2000 - XP just sux. Sorry Microsoft your programers need to try using their own software and make sure it works before (emphasis on before) you release it to the public. I never had a single problem with comptuers (besides the blue screen of death) that I couldn't fix except this. Oh in case you are wondering, I didn't register either of the Office versions (97 or 2000). I also didn't download any patches. Everyone says that the patches will fix the problems, but I am just sick of Microsoft's products not working. If anyone in the gaming industry ever treated their customers like this they would be bankrupt before the game ever came out. This is just pathetic. Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73013
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    - run time error message and termination of document I have been having trouble trying to finish an article before I receive a runtime error message and the program "word" is terminated. This is something new and very annoying. Any help with this would be so appreciated :) Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73008
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    - word 2002 freezes On Windows 2000 workstations we recently upgraded office 97 pro to office xp pro and users are complaining that word freezes while open and in use and has to be closed. No such problems prior to the upgrade. The upgrade method was custom and the old apps replaced. Both windows 2000 workstations and office xp have current updates. We have tried an uninstall and reinstall of office xp with same result but the problem is not predictable in occurrence. If you have run across this and have a recomendation it will be appreciated. Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73007
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    - Checking file permissions When I go to retrieve a file from a disk in drive A, it tells me to check file permissions. Does anyone know what that means??? James blkjeepblkshp@aol.com Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73006
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    - word is messed up Somehow a document is attached to word.exe and anytime I start the program to type a new document, it shows up! I unistalled the word, emptied the recycle bin, and installed the program from the original disk, but the problem shows up again! Any help is appreciated. Working with word 97 and windows xp. maz Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73005
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    - Word Printing Problem This is a weird one! I cannot print a Word Document. However, I can print from any other program, including Outlook, Power Point, and Excel. I can print from Wordpad also. When I go to print a Word document I get the "Send an error report" screen. I tried re-installing printers and different versions of Office 2k (SP3 - SR-1). My current config is: Xp Professional Workstations with Office 2K W2K Server Any help is appreciated! Thanks, Tim Tag: strange cursor problem Tag: 73001

Hi,

Recently my a strange cursor problem occured to my word
2002. When I type something, the mouse cursor disappears
immediately. I have to move the mouse around to bring it
back. when it re-appear, the shape turns to a arrow head
instead of a "I" shape. Very annoying problem.

I searched this forum and could not find a clue. Has
anyone experienced the same problem?

Thank you.

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Re: strange cursor problem by Suzanne

Suzanne
Mon Dec 15 16:11:32 CST 2003

There is a setting in Start | Settings | Control Panel | Mouse: Pointer
Options to "Hide pointer while typing."

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"cursorproblem" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:145a101c3c340$55512390$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Recently my a strange cursor problem occured to my word
> 2002. When I type something, the mouse cursor disappears
> immediately. I have to move the mouse around to bring it
> back. when it re-appear, the shape turns to a arrow head
> instead of a "I" shape. Very annoying problem.
>
> I searched this forum and could not find a clue. Has
> anyone experienced the same problem?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
>

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