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
    2023-03-13T09:46:38+00:00

    Thank you, Genius helper! That solved my trouble with office 2016 - my cursor turned white while scrolling text in Win11

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-02-27T02:43:55+00:00

    May this proble be solved soon.

    In my mehod, restore to default setting to MPO are also provied.

    You may try at a risk.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-02-27T02:35:40+00:00

    Thanks, but I am not keen on modifying my computer, especially since I have several apps that run on severely outdated versions for specific reasons.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-02-27T02:29:05+00:00

    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.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-02-27T01:29:21+00:00

    I figured from reading this thread. Sorry I am of no help, as I am equally as frustrated.

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