I've been trying to work on a fanfic on both Word and Word Pad... and it's never done this before... in fact it keeps doing it now...I keep losing my cursor in the middle of typing...the dark blue Microsoft Explorer banner at the top turns light blue and then I can't type...I have to click again to get my cursor so I can type. Does anyone know what's going on here? It's driving me crazy!

Weird. Is it a mouse or a touchpad on a laptop. I know on my laptop, my wrist constantly would move the mouse off the screen and "click" off of word (hence, the banner changing blue and the inability to type). If you're on a laptop, that'd be my guess.

My computer spazzed on me... I shut it down completely and restarted. Hopefully it'll be ok now...yeah, it was very weird...this is a brand new computer (not a laptop) and I do need a new mouse already...but hopefully it won't happen again!

I'm finally learning how to do a few things... don't know if this will work but I'll try it... http://www3.blibs.com/animation-factory/working/1153702540686.gif?512202060

Here's another animation...sigh... I tried... http://www3.blibs.com/animation-factory/working/1153712193667.gif?9335670663

Those are cool. Seriously.

Thanks Elvin...I'm having fun learning how to do this...here's the infamous fight over the red button... http://www3.blibs.com/animation-factory/working/11537245347971.gif?9856708767

They are pretty cool

I like them too!!! Don't know how to fix problem though.

The problem is just Word no longer being the active application. The reasons for this happening are numerous, one common one is a bad mouse button (it clicks out of the application), virus scanner is scanning the document before its opened, a background service is running & then crashing. If it keeps happening though I would check the event logs to see if you can determine if any errors are appearing.

Thanks for the advice, Cep...I'll keep it in mind if it happens again...so far, though, it's doing fine... ...that's me...LOL