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MS Office Forum / Word / Tables / July 2006How to stop cursor flicker in Word?
When I am editing a large table, which I do a LOT, the cursor flickers crazily while the spellchecker icon is working in the bar at the bottom of the window. I turned off the spellchecker, gramar checker and the smart tags and the spellchecker icon went away. This makes the flicker not las as long, but it still happens when I move the cursor. George, What do you mean by flicker? Do you mean the cursor blinks on and off very fast or do you mean it seems to flick between a cursor ang the hourglass shape? Mike Free tips for Microsoft Office users. http://www.kutchka.com/products/freewordtips.asp Mike, It turns on and off very rapidly for awhile, then finally "stabilizes" at the normal cursor blink rate. When you move the cursor, it does it again. It does not go to the hourglass shape. Klaus's suggestion below seems to have fixed it. George > George, > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Free tips for Microsoft Office users. > http://www.kutchka.com/products/freewordtips.asp > When I am editing a large table, which I do a LOT, the cursor flickers > crazily while the spellchecker icon is working in the bar at the bottom > of the window. I turned off the spellchecker, gramar checker and the > smart tags and the spellchecker icon went away. This makes the > flicker not las as long, but it still happens when I move the cursor. Hi George, Setting the table width to "fixed" (Table > AutoFit) might perhaps help? Regards, Klaus Klaus, Setting the column width to "Fixed" worked! I am embarassed to say that I can't find what other effects Autofit Column Width Fixed is going to have on the table. It is a large table with varied column widths and complex cell merges both vertical and horizontal. The change didn't have any obvious (yet) detrimental effect. Is it going to cause problems further down the line (after a lot of work)? George > Hi George, > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > smart tags and the spellchecker icon went away. This makes the > > flicker not las as long, but it still happens when I move the cursor. With AutoFit set to "contents", Word continually tries to to optimize the column widths (so as to minimize the table height, I guess). That takes a lot of ressources, especially with large tables spanning several pages, or lots of merged cells. Setting it to "fixed" just means that Word no longer tries to do that. There are no other bad effects. AutoFit doesn't always work that well when there are a lot of merged cells anyway, I think. Regards, Klaus > Klaus, > Setting the column width to "Fixed" worked! [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >> > smart tags and the spellchecker icon went away. This makes the >> > flicker not las as long, but it still happens when I move the cursor. I see that you got it fixed but wouldn't you rather have a flickering cursor than a cursing flicker? ;-) (Sorry)  SignatureJoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] > When I am editing a large table, which I do a LOT, the cursor flickers > crazily while the spellchecker icon is working in the bar at the bottom of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > long, > but it still happens when I move the cursor. JoAnn Paules [MVP] was telling us: JoAnn Paules [MVP] nous racontait que : > I see that you got it fixed but wouldn't you rather have a flickering > cursor than a cursing flicker? ;-) > > (Sorry) Is the sun beating down hard in your area as well? ;-) SignatureSalut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org Oh yeah. It's been up in the 90's for the last two weeks without much of a break. It's 6:38 pm now and it's still in the high 80's/low 90's. I take it you're feeling the heat also? SignatureJoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] > JoAnn Paules [MVP] was telling us: > JoAnn Paules [MVP] nous racontait que : [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Is the sun beating down hard in your area as well? ;-) Sad to say it did not after all, solve the problem. It certainly made it better in that it lasts a shorter time. It's still happening tho'. Any other ideas? Here's hope for cooler weather all round. (77oF at 12:20 AM thank goodness) Thanks, George > Oh yeah. It's been up in the 90's for the last two weeks without much of a > break. It's 6:38 pm now and it's still in the high 80's/low 90's. I take it [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > > > Is the sun beating down hard in your area as well? ;-) Hi George, maybe something changed or is changing the blinking time. Have a look at GetCaretBlinkTime and SetCaretBlinkTime Option Explicit ' ----------------------- Declare Function SetCaretBlinkTime Lib "user32" _ (ByVal wMSeconds As Long) As Long Declare Function GetCaretBlinkTime Lib "user32" () As Long ' --------------- Sub Test539() MsgBox GetCaretBlinkTime SetCaretBlinkTime (500) ' half a second is a common value End Sub SignatureGreetings from Bavaria, Germany Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA Win XP, Office 2003 "red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de" Helmut, The cursor blink rate is normal until something happens (see next paragraph) then the cursor procedes to blink rapidly for as much as 1.75 minutes then goes back to the original normal blink rate. When the cursor blinks rapidly, it appears solid with rapid and apparently inconsistent blinks off (as with the spellchecker running). This happens when: You change from the Word window and back, when something is typed *and* the cursor is moved, when you backspace to delete. This does not happen when you type something but do not move the cursor, it does not happen when you move the corsor if you have not typed something, it stops when you save. Turning off spell and grammar checking helped as did clearing the "Label text with smart tags" tickbox (tools>autocorrect options Smart Tags tab). Turning off "Allow background saves" had no apparent effect. It seems like it's checking something. Will that change the blink rate? Or is the screen update causing the cursor to blink? This doesn't stop (for a long time) when the spell ad grammar checking is on. Thanks, George Riley > Hi George, > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > SetCaretBlinkTime (500) ' half a second is a common value > End Sub Are you using the default cursor or some sort of variation downloaded from the web? SignatureJoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] > Helmut, > [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] >> SetCaretBlinkTime (500) ' half a second is a common value >> End Sub JoAnn, I'm just using the default cursor. George > Are you using the default cursor or some sort of variation downloaded from > the web? [quoted text clipped - 52 lines] > >> SetCaretBlinkTime (500) ' half a second is a common value > >> End Sub > This happens when: You change from the Word window and back, That would be pretty normal (since, if the document is large, Word needs to swap it back into memory, which takes time and ressources). > when something is typed *and* the cursor is moved, when you > backspace to delete. Do you have any add-ins loaded that might do something in the background? You see COM-Add-Ins in the Help menu > Info > System Info > Office > Word > COM-Add-Ins Another thing that might help a bit would be to work in Normal view and to turn off background pagination (Tools > Options > General). Regards, Klaus JoAnn Paules [MVP] was telling us: JoAnn Paules [MVP] nous racontait que : > Oh yeah. It's been up in the 90's for the last two weeks without much > of a break. It's 6:38 pm now and it's still in the high 80's/low > 90's. I take it you're feeling the heat also? Yeah, but we get the occasional short violent storm to cool things down... SignatureSalut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org |
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