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Cursor Jumping around Why

You may find that when using your laptop which runs on XP, that while typing emails in Outlook, the cursor jumps somewhere else in the document for no apparent reason.

It is generally caused by mistakenly hitting the touchpad, which is located right under the space bar.

If I inadvertently you rest the back end of my thumb on the touchpad while typing, the cursor will jump to a place in the document where the computer thinks you wish to move it with the touchpad.

If you note it will appear to happen mostly right after you hit the spacebar, this is probably whatʹs happening.

Sometimes it this also happens because the touchpad is dirty.

There are three ways you may be able to fix the problem:

Change the position of your hands on the keyboard

(Lifting them up so that part of your thumb doesnʹt come to rest on the touchpad)

Clean the touchpad with a slightly damp cloth, and/or use the touchpad software to set it not to accept ʺtapping.ʺ

None of us are infallible so do not take it to heart that you’ve got massive mitts.