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Old 05-20-2009, 04:05 AM
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Ok, so I'm writing an english essay in word, and I use the center clicking button on my mouse to scroll up (the wheel thing). You know where you click the wheel once, then little arrows appear, and then you move the mouse up and down to scroll in that direction.



Anyway, I click on the wheel, and this little box appears with some random colour in. It stays there.. so I click the wheel some more, and some more untill I have loads of boxes that seem to form a picture.

Very creeped out by now... I took a screen shot, restarted word, the little squares were gone, and any new ones I made just went black.. so I couldn't finish the picture.

I uploaded the screen shot on ma website: http://www.fredstermaster.com/spooky.jpg

I have never seen the image before, but It looks like a little girl, and some
guy holding a hair dryer to her head??? Anyone explain this to me??

thanks!
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Old 05-20-2009, 02:35 PM
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Does this happen only on this document?

Did this doc start out and stayed completely on your machine, or did someone send it to you, or you to them, and then back to you?

Is there something in your doc you copied and pasted in?
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Old 05-20-2009, 02:43 PM
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Does this happen only on this document?

Did this doc start out and stayed completely on your machine, or did someone send it to you, or you to them, and then back to you?

Is there something in your doc you copied and pasted in?
Yes, this doc started and stayed on my machine. Thing is, I can still create the black sqaures in any word doc.. I just can't get an image or colour in them

I may have copied some text from websites, but the doc had no pictures in. I mean.. I would have thought someone else in the world found the same thing as me... but after googling for a while it seems not
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Old 05-20-2009, 03:02 PM
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Good

Next, has this glitch only recently started showing up in Word docs?
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Old 05-21-2009, 01:10 AM
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not exactly, I can't remember the first time it happened, but it was when I first discovered you could actualy click the wheel in the mouse. So I assume this could have been happening from when I first got my computer.

If it helps I'm on vista home premium - 32 bit
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Old 05-21-2009, 01:37 AM
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Ouch!

Does this glitch remains in your documents--that is, saved with your documents?

"Google" your mouse to see if others have experienced this problem, particularly if your Mouse is a third party addition

I think I would do an uninstall/reinstall of your Mouse if the previous observation fails in finding this problem addressed at your mouse company's web site

Feel free to attached a small file enough to get this problem and let me see if I have the same problem
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Old 05-21-2009, 09:55 AM
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Ouch!

Does this glitch remains in your documents--that is, saved with your documents?

"Google" your mouse to see if others have experienced this problem, particularly if your Mouse is a third party addition

I think I would do an uninstall/reinstall of your Mouse if the previous observation fails in finding this problem addressed at your mouse company's web site

Feel free to attached a small file enough to get this problem and let me see if I have the same problem
The sqaures dissapear after I close word, and cannot be saved. Actualy, what I forgot to mention, is that they dissapear when I scroll down the page. Forgot about that :O

I googled, but my dell mouse came with my pc (a dell) and It didn't return any results similiar to my problems

Also, the mouse is USB, so how do I reinstall it if there is no installation disk?

also thank you for replying to my posts so far
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Old 05-21-2009, 01:32 PM
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Here are some random thoughts of what I would try:

Does this problem or some other problem occur with say Excel?

Put in new Mouse batteries regardless it seems I do not need to do this

Go to web sites like this

And here

This could be an issue Dell addresses

Keep us updated what you find or don't find to work
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