Question : Erratic Cursor behavior on Word 2007

Hi,

I have a recently purchased Toshiba M500 running Windows 7 Home Basic, to which i installed a copy of MS Office SBE 2007.

According to my user, after a few weeks both Word and Excel showed some peculiar problems. Though the he is uncertain of the exact date or what was done prior to this issue, i believe it was after an Automatic Update was performed by the Laptop.

Whenever using MS Word, the mouse cursor repeatedly and quickly changes from several cursor icons. The ones i could make out are the hourglass, the "i" bar and the arrow head. This happens whenever the mouse pointer is within the Word window, be it stationary or in motion. We can still type and use Word though, and it seems that the application is still working properly. I tried it on other applications like Notepad but the error only occurs when using Word.

On Excel, a group of cells are highlighted then shifts to another group of cells without any user input. It will do so on its own once in about every 5 seconds. The cursor is not behaving erratically on Excel though.

The solutions i have tried so far are installing the latest updates from MS and removing and reinstalling the Office SBE 2007 but to no avail. Before i consider reformatting the laptop, i would like to ask anyone who may have knowledge or any other idea on how to remedy the issue.

Answer : Erratic Cursor behavior on Word 2007

the question contains a multitude of subquestions ...

1. A2
  --> is the mssql software installed locally ?
  --> on a server ?
1. A3
  --> copy ? why not use a script to create the database ?
  --> footprint of sql script is a lot smaller than a database copy
  --> look here:
    http://tgrignon.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/creating-a-sql-server-database-by-script/
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa258257%28SQL.80%29.aspx
1. A4
  --> udl file, basically a connection string
  --> if the software is in installed for that provider

1. B2
  --> find a list of available mssql databases:
  --> http://delphi.about.com/od/sqlservermsdeaccess/l/aa090704a.htm

Actual Question:
Basically I need to find a way to present a list of available databases (that were created by my application).
create a specific table in a specific schema
and then look for that table/schema
as an extra you could add a row in that table/schema with your specific company information

create table CompanyInfo (
  CompanyName varchar(100),
  Version varchar(20))

insert into CompanyInfo (CompanyName, Version) values ('YourCompany', '1')