Yes, I am using a laptop with a touchpad. It's a Dell Inspiron 9400 running Win XP with all the updates applied and Office 2007 Pro, also with all updates.
I opened the Mouse applet and changed as many of the sensitivity settings as I could. None of them made any difference. I don't have a mouse to try.
I have a hard time believing that this is caused by the touchpad. It only happens in Word and only with hidden text. I have never had any problems with a cursor jumping around except for the occasional time when I actually touch the touchpad by accident, but then I know it.
Furthermore, it is 100% repeatable. I can place the cursor anywhere in a line of hidden text and it will jump every time.
I just ran a little test. I isolated the problem to certain kinds of hidden text. It has to be in a heading style that has the multi-level heading numbering applied.
I have uploaded two test docs.
The first one, Jumpy cursor without jumps.docx, has two lines of Normal text, one hidden and one not, and two lines of Heading 1 text, again one hidden and one not. None of these lines have any problems with a jumpy cursor.
The second doc, Jumpy cursor with jumps.docx, is a copy of the exact same document, but I selected the Heading 1 lines and applied the multi-line numbering style from the multilevel pull-down in the Paragraph section of the Home tab. Now the second Heading 1 line has the jumpy cursor problem.
I tested these documents on another computer that is not a laptop and uses a mouse. Same behavior.
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