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
    2023-04-22T00:58:06+00:00

    I do not, as I still have the issue, but I want to test a theory I have. Unfortunately, I do not have access to my computer for a couple weeks to try it, but I had the idea of making the default cursor cosmetic (the one I believe we are complaining about) from scratch and using it as a custom cursor cosmetic. If this goes well after a bit (say, a week?), I'll try to post a download link here. If not, then I do not know what else to do.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-04-21T21:41:14+00:00

    I've noticed recently that it's been happening less frequently, but the problem has not completely gone away. Is anyone aware of whether something was updated recently in Windows or with AMD which could have helped with this?

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-04-21T21:22:09+00:00

    You can try the method I mentioned in the previous reply, which disables MPO functions by modifying the WIndows Registry.

    For me, it is working well till now!

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