Using Appleworks or Word, in Leopard .. screens move, when pulldown menu..

When working on a document, and I highlight a sentence & pull down the font screen to change the font (several documents open) my document dulls, and moves. If I pull the menu down, and move to highlight new font very slowly, it might change it without the document moving, but it may do the dulling & moving bit repeatedly. Very frustrating! Do I need to change a preference..where? Anyone else with this problem?

If you are using an Apple Mighty mouse, if you open up your documents, and you press those side buttons on the mouse, does this cause your issue to occur?
It could be a feature called "expose"
If you go to system preferences > expose & spaces and you can change settings for it. You can also go to system prefrences > keyboard and mouse, and go to mouse, and change the button that says expose to something else or " - "
This will probably stop this from happening in the future.
If you notice it happening when you place the mouse in the corners of the screen, this could be related to "hot corners" which are also located in the expose system preference aswell.

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