[mso] Re: case of the missing cursor

Only one window will have the "focus" at any time.  In Windows, the one with 
the focus will have a different coloured top bar to all the other windows. 
On my computer, this is a bright blue compared to a faded blue on the other 
windows.

Switching focus is usually done with the mouse.  For Windows, you actually 
need to click somewhere in the window to change the focus.  (For Unix, 
simply hovering the mouse pointer over a Window will give that window the 
focus.  But I don't think you can do that in Windows.)  Another way to 
switch window focus is Alt-Tab or Alt-Shift-Tab.  With older versions of 
Word (Office 97 and below) I think you can also swap between your open Word 
documents with Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab.

A window that loses the focus does not disappear from the screen (unless 
it's obscured by the window that now has the focus, of course, when it's 
still there, but underneath).

What version of Word are you using?  The way Word handles windows changed 
significantly with Word 2000.

Regards, Dave S

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Diana Covell" <dianac@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 10:07 AM
Subject: [mso] Re: case of the missing cursor


> O.K., now I am confused.  What do you all mean by 'focus'?  I have noticed
> the last day I was at work (I only work one day a week (volunteer job) 
> that
> if I have two documents open and I am not working on either document but 
> am
> talking to my boss, the computer will suddenly shut down one document and
> open the other one.)  Is that what focus is?  Are you thinking that the
> computer has stopped focusing on the document that I am working on and has
> 'focused' on another document that I have open?  WOW, you just might have
> something there!!!!
>
> I work in an Art Gallery and have been moving 'sold' art work from a
> document called current inventory to another file called  inventory
> archives.  Then I might start a new document to write a letter to one of 
> our
> artists.  Sometimes I might have three or four documents open at the same
> time.
>
> Interesting, very interesting.  If this is the case, does this mean that 
> to
> fix the problem, I should just have only one document open at one time?
> Sounds WAY too easy!  :o)
>
> I will not be going to work again till this Thursday but will keep you
> posted.  Sounds like the most promising thing so far, although . . .
>
> Diana
>
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