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Old July 29th, 2006, 04:42 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
George Riley
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Default 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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Old July 29th, 2006, 09:06 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
Mike Seddon
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Default 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

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Old July 29th, 2006, 01:16 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
George Riley
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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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Old July 29th, 2006, 01:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
George Riley
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Default 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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Old July 29th, 2006, 01:35 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
Klaus Linke
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Default 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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Old July 29th, 2006, 08:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
JoAnn Paules [MVP]
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Default 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)

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"George Riley" George wrote in message
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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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Old July 29th, 2006, 10:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
Jean-Guy Marcil
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Default 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? ;-)

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Salut!
_______________________________________
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Word MVP site:
http://www.word.mvps.org


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Old July 29th, 2006, 11:39 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
JoAnn Paules [MVP]
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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?

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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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Old July 30th, 2006, 05:23 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
George Riley
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Default 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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