Help With Imprecise Cursor Location
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 9:10 pm
Hi folks, I apologize if this is old news but I am going crazy with an inaccurate cursor in Writer. (And should come clean as a user of programs, not an understander of how the anything works behind the scenes — a relatively sophisticated user though who works in architecture and spends too much time with Vectorworks and the Adobe Suite, so I'm kind of capable.)
I'm doing a lot of editing and being able to precisely place a cursor for a selection is an urgent need; at the moment Writer is proving unusable. I have been through a 1/2 doze proposed fixes I found in the forum from toggling the hidden characters to ensuring Safari has no zoomed or reduced windows and others I can't recall at the moment. (Restarting the program, restarting the machine, are others. I have not reinstalled the program. And the issue follows me from machine to machine in multiple documents.)
The Safari zoom fix seemed to make things a little more accurate but not what I'd expect. My baseline is selecting type in Illustrator — am I asking too much of Writer? And if zooming a browser window can affect Writer how can I isolate it from other programs? Thanks for the help, I wouldn't post here but my editing work is important and the cursor accuracy is making extremely difficult and time consuming to do. Thanks in advance!
J
PS: It looks as if there is an update but my newer machine can't make the updater connect to the internet. I am returned a message:
Error reading data from the Internet.
Server error message: .
I'll track the update down and install it. Is this something that was fixed from 4.1.3 to 4.1.6?
Thanks again!
I'm doing a lot of editing and being able to precisely place a cursor for a selection is an urgent need; at the moment Writer is proving unusable. I have been through a 1/2 doze proposed fixes I found in the forum from toggling the hidden characters to ensuring Safari has no zoomed or reduced windows and others I can't recall at the moment. (Restarting the program, restarting the machine, are others. I have not reinstalled the program. And the issue follows me from machine to machine in multiple documents.)
The Safari zoom fix seemed to make things a little more accurate but not what I'd expect. My baseline is selecting type in Illustrator — am I asking too much of Writer? And if zooming a browser window can affect Writer how can I isolate it from other programs? Thanks for the help, I wouldn't post here but my editing work is important and the cursor accuracy is making extremely difficult and time consuming to do. Thanks in advance!
J
PS: It looks as if there is an update but my newer machine can't make the updater connect to the internet. I am returned a message:
Error reading data from the Internet.
Server error message: .
I'll track the update down and install it. Is this something that was fixed from 4.1.3 to 4.1.6?
Thanks again!