"Draw Table" button on Office XP Word

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Usually, clicking on the "draw table" button (which is the icon that is a pencil with a line) in Word and release the click and move the mouse, the mouse pointer will change into a pencil.

I recently found that after clicking on the "draw table" button, the pencil pointer only remain for less than 2 seconds, then disapears. So I could not even fix the point where I want to draw a line before it actually disapears.

Does anyone have the same experience?

Could anyone help me out please?

Thanks.