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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.
Hello This also happens to me but on chrome
Perhaps the cursor disappearing while typing in word is a slightly different issue to the cursor (or just its outline) turning white? I notice both, but I feel no cursor while typing in Word might be by design?
I see the white cursor outline in Edge pretty frequently. Seems to be only for the text select, and grab cursors. Like everyone else I have an AMD CPU+GPU, but what seems different in my case is I'm on Windows 10. Perhaps this makes sense though, as I only notice the white outline in Edge and not elsewhere in windows.
OS Name: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Version: 10.0.19045 Build 19045
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics, 3901 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s)
Edge: Version 109.0.1518.55 (Official build) (64-bit)
Yes, that resolved the issue. If this was reddit I would give you an award for this answer while calling myself stupid because I just stumbled past that setting and didn't think about trying to fix the issue this way.
However, the fix only works after having typed a letter in the document after selecting the window. This is still a minor inconvinience but it's much more bearable than not seeing your cursor.
If someone wants just a quick fix though, just turn your Cursor design to black and you get rid of the issue completely.
Yup. Still a problem however I experience my problem the worst while using Vmware. Along with the bluetooth mouse problems in Windows 11 it really makes me wish I could revert to Windows 10 on this laptop. It's obviously not a driver or settings issue, it's a Windows issue.