"select" or "highlight" function will not quit

[Jeffrey Evans]

My computer is using a pentium 4 chip, with 512M of RAM,
Windows XP Professional, Office XP Professional, a
Trackball Explorer 1.0 PS2/USB compatible mouse (I just
downloaded and installed the latest Trackball mouse
Intellipoint software).

I am having a problem with the "select" or "highlight"
function becoming "stuck" intermittently, but not a lot
of the time. (This only started occurring within the last
month or so.)

I don't know if this is a Windows XP Professional or
Office XP problem, but sometimes when I select text in
Word 2002, the select function will not turn off. The
problem, however, is not limited to Word. The select
function also sometimes stays on or "sticks" in other
applications like Quicken or Timeslips and on the Windows
XP desktop, such that as I move the mouse cursor, all of
the desktop icons become selected. No matter how many
times I click the cursor, the select function will not
quit and return to normal. I have to reboot the computer
to get a fresh start whenever it occurs.

I have also run Norton Utilities from Norton System Works
2003, done a Scandisk, a Disk Doctor, and a One-Button
check, but none of the utilities has shown that there is
a problem.

Any advice, help, suggestions, someone who has
experienced the same thing?

 

[TF]

Jeff

Try checking that you have the latest driver for your graphics card.

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://www.mvps.org/word/

My computer is using a pentium 4 chip, with 512M of RAM,
Windows XP Professional, Office XP Professional, a
Trackball Explorer 1.0 PS2/USB compatible mouse (I just
downloaded and installed the latest Trackball mouse
Intellipoint software).

I am having a problem with the "select" or "highlight"
function becoming "stuck" intermittently, but not a lot
of the time. (This only started occurring within the last
month or so.)

I don't know if this is a Windows XP Professional or
Office XP problem, but sometimes when I select text in
Word 2002, the select function will not turn off. The
problem, however, is not limited to Word. The select
function also sometimes stays on or "sticks" in other
applications like Quicken or Timeslips and on the Windows
XP desktop, such that as I move the mouse cursor, all of
the desktop icons become selected. No matter how many
times I click the cursor, the select function will not
quit and return to normal. I have to reboot the computer
to get a fresh start whenever it occurs.

I have also run Norton Utilities from Norton System Works
2003, done a Scandisk, a Disk Doctor, and a One-Button
check, but none of the utilities has shown that there is
a problem.

Any advice, help, suggestions, someone who has
experienced the same thing?