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
    2022-12-05T04:19:44+00:00

    This is a famous issue now! 100 members of this community have voted that they are having the same question.

    This posted has been viewed approximately nine thousand times

    However, Microsoft officials did not give reasons and a complete solution till now.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-12-06T21:39:07+00:00

    This bothers me a lot while writing research papers. Ugh, I shouldn't have upgraded to Win11.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-12-11T09:49:40+00:00

    I have the same problem.

    Indeed, the problem no longer appears if I disable hardware acceleration.. But everything seems slower..

    An idea of ​​the problem ?

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-12-20T13:37:34+00:00

    This all is good, but this broke my netflix, is there any way to revert this code??

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-12-20T13:48:31+00:00

    This all is good, but this broke my netflix, is there any way to revert this code??

    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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