cursor has a life of it's own

[joanpd]

When I'm in excel the cursor keeps moving all they way to colum a and in word it just randomly moves all the way to the left. It happens both when i'm not doing something or when i'm typing. All of a sudden half of the word will be where I want it and then I notice that i'm back at the begining of the line

Is there anyway to fix this
Joan

[Dilbert]

1. Do any of your keys get stuck?
2. Did any liquid get near the keyboard?

Just covering the obvious to start.

[joanpd]

I thought it was the keyboard at first but I still had the problem when the keyboard was unhooked from the computer.

[Dilbert]

1. Is this a USB keyboard?
1a. If not, you did shut down before unplugging, right?

[joanpd]

No I was trying to avoid restaring my computer since i'm not very patient and didn't want to wait for it to start up. I jsut restarted it and i'm no longer having any problem with this thank you for your help
Joan

[Dilbert]

...OK... thanks for stopping by; feel free to post again if this problem re-arises or another one comes up.

[GX1_Man]

....after you restart it.....

That's pretty impatient, if you have time to post a note in a forum, but not a reboot.