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From: mjg@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael Gingell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: MS WORD/EGA/MOUSE problem
Message-ID: <3864@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Sep-87 09:30:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: ecsvax.3864
Posted: Tue Sep 15 09:30:40 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 24-Sep-87 04:27:16 EDT
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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Keywords: Mouse, EGA, Paradise, Microsoft Word, HELP


I have been running Microsoft Word with a Mouse Systems serial mouse
for several years using a color and a monochrome monitor with no
problems.  Recently I bought a Paradise Autoswitch EGA which seems to
work fine except that on Word the mouse does not work.  Stranger than
fiction, another product by Microsoft - Quickbasic recognizes the
mouse and works as it should so I don't think its a mouse hardware or
software problem.

A recent note by someone else on the ATI EGA Wonder card suggested
that Word has problems with EGA cards. I am using Word 3.1 and 
everything else apart from the mouse seems to be OK.

This is a typical problem with PC's where you have components from
at least 4 different 3rd parties - PCs Ltd AT Computer, Microsoft
Word, Mouse Systems Mouse, Paradise EGA Card.  Pun intended - It's
a Paradise for manufacturers who can all claim it's the other guys
fault.

HELP - does anyone know ANYTHING which could shed light on this ?

--- Mike Gingell  ....decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!mjg