Disappearing Cursor in Word for Mac 2011

Anonymous
2010-11-10T15:16:33+00:00

My cursor is disappearing in some of my Word for Mac 2011 documents.  It is fine at first, but at some point it disappears and does not come back.  if I open in Word 2008, I can see the cursor.  Any ideas?

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Anonymous
2012-06-17T03:16:20+00:00

Other users have fixed the problem by disabling Word > Preferences > General > AutoHide rulers.

NOTE added on April 9, 2014:

The 14.4.1 update, which you can download through the main menu bar's Help > Check for Updates, presumably fixes this problem:

<ul><br><li><strong>Improves Microsoft </strong><strong>Word pointer display</strong></li></ul><br><br><br> <ul><br><li>This update fixes an issue that causes mouse pointers to disappear in sections of documents</li></ul> <br> ---

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Anonymous
2017-11-14T22:31:11+00:00

I lost my cursor doing something to my document. I simply saved and closed the document and when I reopened  it the cursor had returned.

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Anonymous
2015-03-15T15:24:38+00:00

The problem occurs if math equations or italics are in the hidden region of a page which is partly shown in the word window. So if the magnification is chosen so that exactly one complete page fits into the word window the problem is avoided.

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Anonymous
2015-02-15T07:57:59+00:00

All software has bugs. Presumably, they get fixed in order of priority (determined by the number of users complaining, gravity of the situation, cost to fix, etc.).

As of today, Open Office's Writer component has thousands of open bugs:

  1. Editing-related: 1209
  2. Formatting-related: 1281
  3. Open/import files: 1024
  4. ... and 8 more categories.

Some of those are feature requests, but not the majority. And some will never be addressed.

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-05-08T15:03:54+00:00

    The disappearing Cursor seems to be related to the spell checker. Whenever the spell checker is busy the cursor is not visible. Deselect spell checking while typing and the cursor is back.

    In Office 2011 spell checking also takes considerably longer than in the earlier versions. In particular when you are working with a non-English language version, but write text in English. Hen

    Obviously this is not a desirable situation.

    {MBPro '11; 8G RAM}

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