Regardless of the application the cursor jumps to different location

First time this happened was while doing a PowerPoint presentation (for Mac 2011, 14.3.9).
While doing so the cursor jumped somewhere else. The Beamer then showed my Desktop instead of the presentation.
I do not opened PP and am working in Apple Mail. While Typing the cursor jumps somewhere else and the text can't be continued before I jump back.
this happens even while typing this text.
What can I do?
I have problems to figure out why this happens.
Does anyone have the same problem?

Try setting up another admin user account to see if the same problem continues. If Back-to-My Mac is selected in System Preferences, the Guest account will not work. The intent is to see if it is specific to one account or a system wide problem. This account can be deleted later.
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