I tend to mix my mouse & keyboard usage. I'm not strictly mouse, and not strictly keyboard, but somewhere in between. I invariably end up abandoning the mouse once I've got the window I want open to a point where I can use the keyboard for everything else. Abandoning the mouse though can be a problem.

Normally this is fine, but once in a while, the place where I just abandoned the mouse has special meaning in the popup. Take for example the Outlook Message Window's Ruler. I just did this for the 100th time. I click a message in the folder item list, switch to keyboard, hit ctrl + F and start typing. Unfortunately, once in a while, the place where I left the mouse corresponds to the something like the ruler expansion area. Now, that _should_ be fine but being that A) it is a slick animation and B) outlook is now searching for contacts (because I've started typing into the recipients field) , outlook comes to a near complete stop until both operations are complete. Now, why these two would fight for the same resources I'm not sure, but there it is.

Anyone else noticed this behavior? Wish we had a proper outlet for these frustrations...