Mouse doesn't work in Microsoft Word to select text, or highlight text to copy or add features such as bold/italics/underline.

Question

After pasting an E-mail into a Microsoft Word document (which I do all the time), my mouse stopped working to click anywhere in the document and it won't allow me to use the side scroll bar.  I can still click on tabs and commands up top and the page up and down buttons, but I can't highlight text to underline/bold/italics or to copy or move around in the document.  I use these features all the time and am very frustrated.  I can still do all of these things in other applications such as E-mail, Facebook, Internet but not in Word.  Please help.  I have already checked my mouse settings and drivers and they are all up-to-date without errors.  I have restarted my computer; the only next step I can think of is reinstalling Microsoft Office Professional 2007.  I appreciate any assistance you can provide.  Respectfully, Julie

Answer 1

Hi,

These are the current Support Forums.

Check with the Office Experts here : (re-ask your question in the appropriate groups)

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http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/officeinstall/threads?lc=1033&filter=answered

Answers - Office Forums

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/default.aspx

Hope this helps.

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Hope this helps.

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Answer 2

What do you mean by "hacked up"??  If it keeps going behind all the windown opened, can't you try minimizing everything else to get to it?  I don't think I understand the issue you're having...

Answer 3

I was able to fix this by opening the document in compatibility mode.

This may also be fixed by changing the file type to .doc

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This is what solved the same problem you guys are experiencing for me. Opening documents from different word processing applications seemed to be causing several other errors that I have now been able to fix.

Most of the time when I would save a document from Google docs as a .docx file I would find his issue... The problem for me was not Word 2013 but the translation of my documents that were saved in other word processors. Give it a try and let me know how it goes.

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

Wow!  Num Lock worked in a flash!  Thanks a million x a million!

Answer 5

This worked perfect for me after trying some of the other options listed here.  Thanks!