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Microsoft Word has a horrible bug that has been there for years and never gets fixed. When I pause my typing for a moment and then go back to resume where I left off, Word frequently moves the insertion point to a random location in the document, which means that it takes a second to realize that what I am typing is now appearing somewhere else in the document instead of where I had my cursor. Same goes for backspacing to delete text. You think you’re deleting text where you placed your cursor, but instead it’s deleting text somewhere else, usually out of the frame so that you can’t see what it’s doing.

I’ve read every tip I can find on this problem, and none of them fix it. The most common one is to claim that if using a laptop (which I am) you must have inadvertently brushed the touchpad and accidentally moved the cursor that way. I have done very careful tests in which I make sure my hands never touch the touchpad while typing, and it still happens. I start to type a sentence, then pause. I can see my cursor blinking right where I stopped typing. I then resume typing, only to see nothing happening where I left the cursor, and after searching around the document I find that it has for no reason jumped to a random spot in the document and all of my new text is appearing there.

This happens frequently, many times each day, and I have experienced it over the years in many different revisions of Word and on completely different computers, including both desktops and laptops. It’s absolutely maddening, but Microsoft just never fixes it.