The problem started before performing an update on MS Office, but persisted after the update was installed.
I am working with MS Word for Mac 2011 on a Macbook with OS X version 10.9.2. However, moving the actual cursor to where I want to work in the document OR only scrolling but not moving the cursor both still result in the view always jumping back to the previous edit. Is not jumping around, but staying in the place I was working. I'm not sure if this is related to the bigger problem or not. The problem disappears when I switch from "Final Showing Markup" to either "Original" or "Final", but this doesn't help me because I am responding to comments/edits in the document and need to be able to see them.Īnother strange thing is that if I switch from "Final Showing Markup" to "Original Showing Markup", within a few seconds the view switches by itself back to "Final Showing Markup". When I move to a different part of the document to continue editing, the view jumps afterĪ second or two back to the previous section. If you forget and press Enter in the first cell and this problem happens, put your cursor back into the first cell and press Enter a second time, then go back to the unwanted paragraph above the table and delete it.I'm working on editing a document, and the view keeps jumping back to one particular spot where I made an insertion, even after making new insertions/edits elsewhere. If you want to ignore good practice, you could add a space before pressing Enter. If you are adding the paragraph to push the first text away from the top, do it by either using a style with paragraph 'space before' or by adjusting the table cell top margin. If you always intend to vertically centre the content you are adding to that cell then you should apply that alignment to the first cell (as you did in the cell below it). As far as I know, this isn't controllable via an option but you can live with it if you adjust your behaviour.įirstly, good practice would dictate that you don't add empty paragraphs to push following content down the page so starting a table cell with an empty paragraph is not good practice. MS developers eventually listened to 30+ years of customer complaints and added a special feature that if your cursor was in the first position in the document AND was in a table cell then pressing Enter adds a paragraph above the table.
In older versions of Word, if your document started with table, it was a common annoyance that it wasn't simple to add content in front of that table. The problem you are seeing is not with your template at all but a 'new feature' that Microsoft added at some stage. I've had a look at the document and could reproduce the issue you are having so I know what is going on now. I have gone to 'Table Properties' and set the cell properties to be constrained exactly 3" in height, as well as clearing the options to "automatically resize to fits contents" and "allow row to break across pages," all to no avail. One other clue as to what might be wrong: It only does it when trying to enter text into the upper-left cell, but not when entering text into any of the other three cells. The cells, themselves don't change size, but the whole table splits in half and the cursor is no longer even in the table. Now, when I try to type something in the first cell (upper, left cell), the cursor immediately jump up above the entire table, splitting the whole page into two separate pages, with each page now showing only one row of two cells. It was working great, and I have made lots of flash cards.until a couple of hours ago, when something has changed. I print one page for the fronts of the flash cards, and a second page for the backs of the flash cards. With the page in landscape orientation, there are four cells for the card text, each row consisting of two 3"x 5"cells I am trying to make flash cards, using Word 2007.