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
    2022-09-20T10:07:17+00:00

    I faced the same problem, with no answers after a bunch of research. It's very frustrating.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-09-23T05:51:30+00:00

    Same problem here. Cursor turns white when hovering over lettes and that delays me very much in my work because you cannot see with clarity where exactly it is. It turns black as it sould after a few seconds but its too frustrating and time wasting. Because i lose these few seconds every few seconds.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-09-23T08:05:29+00:00

    Same problem here. Cursor turns white when hovering over lettes and that delays me very much in my work because you cannot see with clarity where exactly it is. It turns black as it sould after a few seconds but its too frustrating and time wasting. Because i lose these few seconds every few seconds.

    I am facing the same problem, and have spent 10 hours.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-09-23T08:17:12+00:00

    I found an valid method provided by Jean-Lu.

    https://www.thefreewindows.com/13055/ms-office-mouse-cursor-disappears-invisible/

    To facilitate reading, copy as follows.

    Jean-Luc Mercier i had this problem and i solved it ...

    I went to the control panel / mouse
    in the mouse properties parameters I ckecked the "display pointer trails" checkbox

    Then i clicked on the "Apply" button.

    I instantly could see the place of the cursor while moving it in a word document but ... disappearing again when stopping the movement.
    This was a first step, partially solving the problem since i could see where i stood with my pointer.

    I returned to the mouse setting parameters and i unchecked the "display pointer trails" ...
    and ... surprisingly everything was ok again ... :-D incredible !!!
    So this is something that worked for me ... that I hope that this stupid manipulation will work for people experiencing the same issue.

    Jean-Luc" It is awsome!

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-09-23T08:22:35+00:00

    Look at my reply to HEE Chang Xiang. I found a resolution.

    Please have a try. This method was firstly proposed by Jean-Lu as follows.

    https://www.thefreewindows.com/13055/ms-office-mouse-cursor-disappears-invisible/

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