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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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The second problem you mentioned, where the text cursor goes completely white, is the one I've been dealing with. I have similar issues with remoting because of the local rendering of the cursor. I am on an HP Aero 13 Win 11 laptop with an AMD APU.
It was bugging me to much so I dug a little deeper. Since changing driver settings didn't do a lot, I went in and checked Windows settings. I found a solution for now.
Go to System Properties*, tab Advanced. Choose the Performance Settings. In here you can toggle Visual Settings of Windows. Uncheck "Animate controls and elements inside windows". Done.
*Windows changed the way to get to the properties in Win11.
Hi, BobvE. this is a really helpful metod, which I have tried about three months ago. How ever when using the uptodate Edge or chrome, the cursor will disappared for a short time aroud the URL blank. So I turn to modify the registration.
You may try my methd shown in previous posts， which work perfectly on my laptop.
Hasn't helped me. Still looking for a solution after trying everything mentioned here. This just needs a fix from Microsoft - they are apparently aware of it according to someone who posted here earlier, but nothing has been patched yet from what I can see.
Not sure if anyone already posted this but I saw a video on youtube that worked for me. It's basically to change the text select pointer.
Go to mouse properties.
Select pointers
Under the customize section, scroll until you find text select then click it.
Click browse
Scroll until you find beam_r and open it.
Then Apply