My Cursor Keeps Turning White in Microsoft Word Without Typing

Anonymous
2022-08-15T21:33:58+00:00

My cursor keeps turning white in Microsoft Word 2016 (I bought lifetime access), even without typing. I already tried changing the cursor settings so that it wouldn't disappear when typing, but that didn't do anything. After a few seconds the text selection cursor will turn white, and, if I hover over dark text, I can see the cursor outline. This has been happening in multiple documents, so not an isolated incident.

This started after a Microsoft update which forced me to log back into my Microsoft account to use Word about a week or two ago. I've tried everything I can find on the internet, but no luck yet. It's very hard to get work done if I can't see my cursor in Word, so what do I need to do to fix this issue so I can get back to work?

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-05-14T00:21:19+00:00

    Dude! Thanks for this!

    This is still a problem and your solution is still working like a charm.

    May awesomeness be with you forever

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-04T04:56:16+00:00

    worked for me, thanks!

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-09-23T21:01:56+00:00

    I rolled my computer back a couple of updates before I even created this topic and it still didn't work, so this is more than a couple of updates ago at this point. Word 2016.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-09-23T17:27:09+00:00

    It only happens in my MS WORD. In my text editor and Edge browser, it's ok. My situation looks like the following URL. https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/pfhyfj/my\_cursor\_turns\_white\_when\_i\_move\_it\_over\_words

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-08-16T16:14:51+00:00

    Are you using the default cursors?

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