cursor shifts focus to taskbar from within Excel

[teacher24_70]

I have Microsoft Office 2007 installed in my Windows XP Parallels VM. I haven't really had any problems until this evening. I'm not sure whether the issue lies with XP, Office, or a Parallels keyboard issue.

The first issue was that when I typed the letter "u" in an XP help and support window, "Utility Manager" would launch and begin speaking text. This continued to happen until I restarted XP & Parallels.

Now, when working in Excel, I'm getting odd cursor focus shifting. I'll be typing in a cell and odd things start opening and popping up.

Typing a "b" shifted the cursor focus from the cell to the document in the taskbar.
Typing an "e" opened up a "My Computer" window.
Typing a "d" takes me to the Desktop
Typing a "f" opens up a search window.

These are just the things happening by doing a quick trial and error through the first few letters of the alphabet.

Has something inadvertently been turned on that's causing keyboard shortcuts to launch unexpected items?

Please help. It's going to be hard to finish this project if I can't even type in a cell without it doing something different.

--Running Parallels 4.0.3810 on a Macbook with 10.5.6 installed.

 

[Srinivasulu.V]

Hello,

First uninstall and reinstall Parallels tools by following the below mentioned steps - :
1) On windows end click on start - > go to Control Panel-> Click on Security Center and turn off Windows Firewall and also Anti virus.
2) Please disable the Parallel Internet Security (Kaspersky).
3) Again go to Control Panel => Go to Add or remove Programs => Remove Parallel tools completely.
4) After the Parallel tools are removed launch Parallels Desktop then on the Menu bar click on Virtual machine.
5) Click on install Parallel tools => Click on Continue and proceed with the installation.
6) Kindly keep a check if you get the confirmation message that " Parallel tools are successfully installed."
7) Restart the Windows Operating System and the Mac.

For restoring the keyboard defaults follow the steps - :

1) Open Parallels Desktop ( do not start the Virtual Machine ).
2) On the Menu bar click on Parallel Desktop.
3) Click on Preference.
4) Click on Keyboard and Mouse.
5) Click on " Restore Defaults " .
6) Click Ok.