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Mouse sticking in office 97

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by djconners001

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A user is having a problem more specifically in powerpoint 97, the mouse is sticking when moving around object, i.e. if you hovered over the outside of a text box the move icon would appear (the cross) but when moving outside of the box for a good inch the move icon does'nt change back to the cursor.

xp pro
office 97 sr2
intel core 2 duo
2gb

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by thumbsup2

If the mouse does not act "sticky" when using it in a non-office 97 application, then it has to be something with office 97. More than likely, it's a compatability issue.

I'm surprised that you don't have further problems running a program designed for Win95 on WinXP and that wasn't even Y2K compliant and FULL of memory leaks and security issues. Office 97 SR-2B came out in 1998 to fix the problems of SR-2, but it's still very insecure when run on WinXP. There was a lot of hub-bub about it back when WinXP first came out.

In stead of wasting your time trying to figure out why the mouse cursor doesn't change exactly where it should change, try convincing the user that he/she desparately needs to upgrade.

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