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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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I figured from reading this thread. Sorry I am of no help, as I am equally as frustrated.
Does disabling the MPO feature of the AMD GPU not work, either?
You can try the method I mentioned in my post, which requires modifying the Windows Registry.
Remember to restart the computer after modifying the Windows Registry.
Thanks, but I am not keen on modifying my computer, especially since I have several apps that run on severely outdated versions for specific reasons.
May this proble be solved soon.
In my mehod, restore to default setting to MPO are also provied.
You may try at a risk.
I have the same problem, but have been able to replicate and at least have a workaround fix, albeit not a complete fix.
In word, the insertion point cursor begins black, but if I move the cursor out of the window and then back to the Word window, the insertion point is now white.
The "fix" is to click outside of the Word window, and then click on the Word page again.
What appears to be happening is that moving the cursor out of the Word window without clicking is changing the cursor from an insertion point to a pointer. Because the focus window has not changed though, bringing the cursor back to the Word page triggers the change of cursor type, but no information about cursor colour, and so we get a white cursor. By changing the focus window and then coming back into Word and doing the change from pointer to insertion point in Word, we get that colour trigger, and our black cursor back