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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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Unfortunately, I've also experienced this problem in my MS Office Word (2016) running on my new computer with Windows 11. It's unbelievably frustrating and there is no fix to deal with it.
2019-21
I also experienced the curser turning white in my Outlook text fields. It's remarkable how frustrating this simple issue can be. Our company is using Microsoft 365 Apps for Business on a Nutanix AHV VDI running Windows 10 v21H2. Reading everyone's comments I looked at my mouse settings in Control Panel. I noticed that my mouse had a Scheme applied on the Pointers tab. Since I usually don't run optional settings my impulse was to select (None) from the Scheme drop menu. Well, my curser is back to normal in Outlook!
This worked for me and I hope it works for other people as well. Thank you to everyone who pointed me in the right direction. I appreciate your comments.
I have the same experience, my pc running a win 10 and laptop running a win 11, the PC is fine but the laptop failed.
This must be a conflict between OS system and MS-word 2016.
No, it's not the Windows theme that needs to be switched, only the Word theme (which carries over to other Office apps). And I realize that this is not a fix, but a workaround, it's just that we don't have any other options right now.