Laptop keys malfunctioning

I recently (late Jan) received my new g6z-2200 and I'm having a bit of a reoccurring problem...
On numerous ocassions (several times a day) while I'm tying a document, I will want to type in italics, bold, or underline and I will hold ctrl and either i, b, or u. The result is that my cursor will jump up several lines, or portions of text will become highlighted and then by deleted (as a result of my typing), or sometimes both, or there will be other similar tricks performed by my computer.
What can I do to get this to stop...as I'm sure you can imagine this is pretty annoying.
Thanks

Hi Stereobit
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