Problems with Word

[dorisday]

I am trying to do some typing in Word for a mate. I have typed about 6 pages and suddenly my cursor is shooting to about two thirds down the page and also doing 1.5 spacing. I have tried several things to no avail. I am desperate to get on with this job. Can anyone help??

[Ethel]

Are you using a mouse or a trackpad?

If it's a mouse, is something trapping the cord?

If it's a trackpad, are you accidently touching it?

Is a key jammed on the keyboard?

Save your work now, close it. Open a new document and see if you still have problems.

[dorisday]

I am using a remote mouse. I have tried opening a new docuemnt and it does exactly the same thing. I have obviously toucheda key on the board and set something into action. Just can't find out what I hit by mistake. I have tried line spacing and page set up .

[Ethel]

Try rebooting your pc. Are you sure your mouse batteries aren't running down?

[dorisday]

I am getting tired now. I thought it might be something to do with page breaks, but I have fiddled with them and nothing is changing. Just going to try a reboot.

[Ethel]

Good luck.

[dorisday]

Tried a re-boot and no difference. I am off to bed to sleep on it. Will see if I can try again in the morning. Thanks very much for your help anyway Ethel.
Sleep well

[FelinfoelDr]

Go back into Word, open the document and then highlight all of the text by holding down the Ctrl and A keys together... then click on Format (in the menu at the top of the screen), then click on Paragraph, then under *Indents and Spacing* ensure that the 3rd option - line spacing - is set to *single*...

I suspect you had accidentally clicked on Ctrl and some other key which altered the line spacing. Click on OK and then save your work (File, Save etc)

[dorisday]

Thank you for this, it seems to have sorted it.
Thank you again for your help.