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How to stop cursor flicker in Word?
When I am editing a large table, which I do a LOT, the cursor flickers
crazily while the spellchecker icon is working in the bar at the bottom of the window. I turned off the spellchecker, gramar checker and the smart tags and the spellchecker icon went away. This makes the flicker not las as long, but it still happens when I move the cursor. |
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How to stop cursor flicker in Word?
George,
What do you mean by flicker? Do you mean the cursor blinks on and off very fast or do you mean it seems to flick between a cursor ang the hourglass shape? Mike Free tips for Microsoft Office users. http://www.kutchka.com/products/freewordtips.asp |
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How to stop cursor flicker in Word?
Mike,
It turns on and off very rapidly for awhile, then finally "stabilizes" at the normal cursor blink rate. When you move the cursor, it does it again. It does not go to the hourglass shape. Klaus's suggestion below seems to have fixed it. George "Mike Seddon" wrote: George, What do you mean by flicker? Do you mean the cursor blinks on and off very fast or do you mean it seems to flick between a cursor ang the hourglass shape? Mike Free tips for Microsoft Office users. http://www.kutchka.com/products/freewordtips.asp |
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How to stop cursor flicker in Word?
Klaus,
Setting the column width to "Fixed" worked! I am embarassed to say that I can't find what other effects Autofit Column Width Fixed is going to have on the table. It is a large table with varied column widths and complex cell merges both vertical and horizontal. The change didn't have any obvious (yet) detrimental effect. Is it going to cause problems further down the line (after a lot of work)? George "Klaus Linke" wrote: Hi George, Setting the table width to "fixed" (Table AutoFit) might perhaps help? Regards, Klaus "George Riley" George wrote: When I am editing a large table, which I do a LOT, the cursor flickers crazily while the spellchecker icon is working in the bar at the bottom of the window. I turned off the spellchecker, gramar checker and the smart tags and the spellchecker icon went away. This makes the flicker not las as long, but it still happens when I move the cursor. |
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How to stop cursor flicker in Word?
With AutoFit set to "contents", Word continually tries to to optimize the
column widths (so as to minimize the table height, I guess). That takes a lot of ressources, especially with large tables spanning several pages, or lots of merged cells. Setting it to "fixed" just means that Word no longer tries to do that. There are no other bad effects. AutoFit doesn't always work that well when there are a lot of merged cells anyway, I think. Regards, Klaus "George Riley" wrote: Klaus, Setting the column width to "Fixed" worked! I am embarassed to say that I can't find what other effects Autofit Column Width Fixed is going to have on the table. It is a large table with varied column widths and complex cell merges both vertical and horizontal. The change didn't have any obvious (yet) detrimental effect. Is it going to cause problems further down the line (after a lot of work)? George "Klaus Linke" wrote: Hi George, Setting the table width to "fixed" (Table AutoFit) might perhaps help? Regards, Klaus "George Riley" George wrote: When I am editing a large table, which I do a LOT, the cursor flickers crazily while the spellchecker icon is working in the bar at the bottom of the window. I turned off the spellchecker, gramar checker and the smart tags and the spellchecker icon went away. This makes the flicker not las as long, but it still happens when I move the cursor. |
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How to stop cursor flicker in Word?
I see that you got it fixed but wouldn't you rather have a flickering cursor
than a cursing flicker? ;-) (Sorry) -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "George Riley" George wrote in message ... When I am editing a large table, which I do a LOT, the cursor flickers crazily while the spellchecker icon is working in the bar at the bottom of the window. I turned off the spellchecker, gramar checker and the smart tags and the spellchecker icon went away. This makes the flicker not las as long, but it still happens when I move the cursor. |
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How to stop cursor flicker in Word?
JoAnn Paules [MVP] was telling us:
JoAnn Paules [MVP] nous racontait que : I see that you got it fixed but wouldn't you rather have a flickering cursor than a cursing flicker? ;-) (Sorry) Is the sun beating down hard in your area as well? ;-) -- Salut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP ISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org |
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How to stop cursor flicker in Word?
Oh yeah. It's been up in the 90's for the last two weeks without much of a
break. It's 6:38 pm now and it's still in the high 80's/low 90's. I take it you're feeling the heat also? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Jean-Guy Marcil" NoSpam@LeaveMeAlone wrote in message ... JoAnn Paules [MVP] was telling us: JoAnn Paules [MVP] nous racontait que : I see that you got it fixed but wouldn't you rather have a flickering cursor than a cursing flicker? ;-) (Sorry) Is the sun beating down hard in your area as well? ;-) -- Salut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP ISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org |
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How to stop cursor flicker in Word?
Sad to say it did not after all, solve the problem. It certainly made it
better in that it lasts a shorter time. It's still happening tho'. Any other ideas? Here's hope for cooler weather all round. (77oF at 12:20 AM thank goodness) Thanks, George "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote: Oh yeah. It's been up in the 90's for the last two weeks without much of a break. It's 6:38 pm now and it's still in the high 80's/low 90's. I take it you're feeling the heat also? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Jean-Guy Marcil" NoSpam@LeaveMeAlone wrote in message ... JoAnn Paules [MVP] was telling us: JoAnn Paules [MVP] nous racontait que : I see that you got it fixed but wouldn't you rather have a flickering cursor than a cursing flicker? ;-) (Sorry) Is the sun beating down hard in your area as well? ;-) -- Salut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP ISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org |
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