Cursor disappears

In MS Word, sometimes when I pause typing, the cursor disappears. I can display it again by typing anything, usually END command.

It this a feature? Is it set-able? Or is this a bug? I don't particulary care for it doing that without my permission.

 

Maybe!!!

 

Good Answer

Good thinking, brett. I had seen that once and forgot it was there. But that is not the condition I have, judging from: I did not have the Hide Pointer option selected.

The pointer is the standard, default I-beam cursor, which is selectable and set-able. I have the cursor blink rate set just short of maximum. I think it might take a while to test this at different rates, to see if it is at the root of the problem.

Hey, maybe it gets pooped-out just running in place so much. Like a jogger waiting for the walk light to change?

 

Had a look at this whilst at work (I don't have Word installed at home) and, whilst the cursor does indeed vanish whilst typing, simply moving the mouse causes it again to become visible.

 

Yup. It does.

For me it's a nuisance because I make a lot of mistakes typing. When the I-beam is missing, I immediately think I have made a bad. It seems any input will re-display the pointer, but if I do END or CTRL+END I know it will surely take me to end of the line or document, if I wasn't already there. If it times-out, I suspect there is a setting for it.

 

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