flashing icons in a right angle

[tac]

When I'm working on a word document, there is this annoying
right angle "flashing set of icons" that appears every 10
seconds.

The vertical icons of the right angles are the buttons:

"previous page",
"next page",
"select browse object"

whereas the horizontal icons of the right angle are the
buttons:

"web layout view",
"print layout view",
"outline view"

Does anyone know how to turn this off? Not only does the
flashing icons annoy me, but while it's doing it, the
cursor turns into an hourglass and temporarily freezes.

I've looked under the 'microsoft office language setting'
under the start menu, and the only language enabled is
english so I don't think it's a language issue.

Thanks for your help.

-tac

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

These icons appear on the vertical and horizontal scroll bars, respectively.
If they are flashing, it must be because your scroll bars are for some
reason auto hiding. I have never seen this behavior, but make sure that, if
you don't want to see these buttons, you have both scroll bars turned off on
the View tab of Tools | Options.

 

[Guest]

Actually, I forgot to mentioned that flashing right angle
appears on the upper left-hand corner of the screen, (ie.
under the file menu). Although they are the exact icons
that appear on the vertical and horizontal scroll bars,
they are not those ones. These are additional ones which
flash on/off every 10-15 seconds.

This behaviour continues (although the flashing right angle
disappears, but the cursor continues to change to the
hourglass) even when I have both scroll bars turned off on
the View tab of Tools>options.

-tac

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Very bizarre. Do you perhaps have a right-to-left language enabled?

 

[tac]

Yes, it is very bizarre and annoying. I don't believe I
have any right-to-left language enabled. The only language
I have enabled is english (us).

Should this problem be unsolvable (could it be that I
triggered a bug in the program?), would you recommend that
I uninstall xp office and re-install it from scratch in
hopes that the problem disappears?

Could it be a WORD virus?

Thanks for your help nonetheless,

-tac

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Have a look at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm,
which suggests ways to eliminate the three types of problems that normally
afflict Word (problems in the Normal.dot template, a global template or
add-in, and/or the Registry). If the problems can't be traced to any of
these elements, then a virus would be a possibility, but that's rarely the
first line of investigation I'd recommend.

 

[Mike]

I have the exact same problem, and I was wondering if you ever found of a way to get rid of it. Sorry, but the website did not help out that much.