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
    2022-12-02T16:33:44+00:00

    For me it really helped with cursor visibility. Had no issue since. But what I now encountered was, that when I type text - sometimes - a character is now showing after a press of a key. Instead it appears with the next character I press. Same thing when deleting a character. Sometimes I have to type another letter that the old one disappears and the new one shows up.

    Strange windows this is ^^
    But I guess at the moment it is better so than having a disappearing cursor...

    So that introduced new problems. I don't want to sacrifice the visibility of letters as I type in order to see the cursor after I type. Doesn't look like a full solution if it makes more problems.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-12-02T15:52:04+00:00

    For me it really helped with cursor visibility. Had no issue since. But what I now encountered was, that when I type text - sometimes - a character is now showing after a press of a key. Instead it appears with the next character I press. Same thing when deleting a character. Sometimes I have to type another letter that the old one disappears and the new one shows up.

    Strange windows this is ^^
    But I guess at the moment it is better so than having a disappearing cursor...

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-12-02T15:30:58+00:00

    The code can be found here, which has been written as REG files, just download and run it.

    The code is provided by Nvidia, but also valid on my AMD GPU.

    https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5157 

    That seems like it is for entire windows flickering. It really helped with cursor visibility?

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-12-01T05:11:51+00:00

    The code can be found here, which has been written as REG files, just download and run it.

    The code is provided by Nvidia, but also valid on my AMD GPU.

    https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5157

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-11-30T14:04:45+00:00

    I am not official stuff. Based on my knowledge, you can restore to the default setting by replacing the "dword:00000005" with "-". The item mainly refers to OpenGL of the GPU driver. You can wait until AMD provides a new version of its driver which fixed this problem.

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