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
    2022-09-23T08:33:10+00:00

    Frustratingly, after restarting the computer the cursor disappears again, The method doesn't work.

    MS should fix this BUG soon.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-09-23T15:39:30+00:00

    Same problem here. Did a clean install of W11 and MS Office also, didn't work. It happened after latest W11 update I think.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-09-23T15:58:18+00:00

    One update before the last i think...

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-09-23T16:44:26+00:00

    Same problem here. Did a clean install of W11 and MS Office also, didn't work. It happened after latest W11 update I think.

    Which version of ms OFFICE do you use?

    I am using office 2016.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-09-23T16:52:57+00:00

    I am having the same problem. Besides,when i scroll down the mouse, the cursor also becomes white and disappeared.

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