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Chaning the cursor - can it be done?
I'm using Word 2000 under Windows XP Pro SP2. Is it possible to change the
appearance of the insertion point cursor? I know that the blink rate of the vertical line can be adjusted right down to zero, but what I'd really like to do is change the vertical line to a horizontal underscore. The possibility doesn't seem to be mentioned in the help file, and a Google search didn't throw anything up, but can it be done? Many thanks, Bert www.bertcoules.co.uk |
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Chaning the cursor - can it be done?
In the Control Panel, under the Accessibility OptionsDisplay, you can
change the width that will certainly make it more visible. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Bert Coules" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2000 under Windows XP Pro SP2. Is it possible to change the appearance of the insertion point cursor? I know that the blink rate of the vertical line can be adjusted right down to zero, but what I'd really like to do is change the vertical line to a horizontal underscore. The possibility doesn't seem to be mentioned in the help file, and a Google search didn't throw anything up, but can it be done? Many thanks, Bert www.bertcoules.co.uk |
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Chaning the cursor - can it be done?
Hi! My problem is similar, sort of:
I have been using Word documents forever - all of a sudden, the blinking cursor is a dot, like a "period" It is awful! I can't see it at all. Very frustrating. I tried your fix but the control panel isn't specifically for Word. This only happens in Word. Let me add one interesting point, that may be a clue: right before this happened, I was scroling down a long document and must have touched something - all of a sudden, the 20+ pages were all on the screen at once, each one very tiny, like thumbnails. Now, when I start a new document, the new doc page comes up teeny-tiny, WITH THAT DARN BLINKING "PERIOD" CURSOR! Please help! Thanks! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: In the Control Panel, under the Accessibility OptionsDisplay, you can change the width that will certainly make it more visible. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Bert Coules" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2000 under Windows XP Pro SP2. Is it possible to change the appearance of the insertion point cursor? I know that the blink rate of the vertical line can be adjusted right down to zero, but what I'd really like to do is change the vertical line to a horizontal underscore. The possibility doesn't seem to be mentioned in the help file, and a Google search didn't throw anything up, but can it be done? Many thanks, Bert www.bertcoules.co.uk |
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Chaning the cursor - can it be done?
Oops.....sorry, forgot to say I am using Microsoft Office Word 2003,
Professional Edition. thanks for your help! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: In the Control Panel, under the Accessibility OptionsDisplay, you can change the width that will certainly make it more visible. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Bert Coules" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2000 under Windows XP Pro SP2. Is it possible to change the appearance of the insertion point cursor? I know that the blink rate of the vertical line can be adjusted right down to zero, but what I'd really like to do is change the vertical line to a horizontal underscore. The possibility doesn't seem to be mentioned in the help file, and a Google search didn't throw anything up, but can it be done? Many thanks, Bert www.bertcoules.co.uk |
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The most bizarre fix!
After looking through other discussion sections here, I found a fix for a
fairly similar problem - I decided to try it since it was so odd. It worked! I brought the doc up to 500%, and then back down to 100%. Crazy! But it worked. Live and learn.......... Topnurse "topnurse" wrote: Hi! My problem is similar, sort of: I have been using Word documents forever - all of a sudden, the blinking cursor is a dot, like a "period" It is awful! I can't see it at all. Very frustrating. I tried your fix but the control panel isn't specifically for Word. This only happens in Word. Let me add one interesting point, that may be a clue: right before this happened, I was scroling down a long document and must have touched something - all of a sudden, the 20+ pages were all on the screen at once, each one very tiny, like thumbnails. Now, when I start a new document, the new doc page comes up teeny-tiny, WITH THAT DARN BLINKING "PERIOD" CURSOR! Please help! Thanks! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: In the Control Panel, under the Accessibility OptionsDisplay, you can change the width that will certainly make it more visible. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Bert Coules" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2000 under Windows XP Pro SP2. Is it possible to change the appearance of the insertion point cursor? I know that the blink rate of the vertical line can be adjusted right down to zero, but what I'd really like to do is change the vertical line to a horizontal underscore. The possibility doesn't seem to be mentioned in the help file, and a Google search didn't throw anything up, but can it be done? Many thanks, Bert www.bertcoules.co.uk |
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Chaning the cursor - can it be done?
Doug Robbins wrote:
Hope this helps. Thanks for the reply. I'll experiment with that, though it doesn't address what I really want to do, which is to change the vertical cursor to a horizontal one. It strikes me as odd that a program as supremely reconfigurable as Word doesn't permit such a basic adjustment to such a prominent feature. Bert www.bertcoules.co.uk |
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The most bizarre fix!
I would imagine you found that "fix" hundreds of times, as certainly we've
given that answer at least that many time. No one knows what causes the problem or why that fixes it, but it's obviously just a minor display issue with (luckily) a trivial fix. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "topnurse" wrote in message ... After looking through other discussion sections here, I found a fix for a fairly similar problem - I decided to try it since it was so odd. It worked! I brought the doc up to 500%, and then back down to 100%. Crazy! But it worked. Live and learn.......... Topnurse "topnurse" wrote: Hi! My problem is similar, sort of: I have been using Word documents forever - all of a sudden, the blinking cursor is a dot, like a "period" It is awful! I can't see it at all. Very frustrating. I tried your fix but the control panel isn't specifically for Word. This only happens in Word. Let me add one interesting point, that may be a clue: right before this happened, I was scroling down a long document and must have touched something - all of a sudden, the 20+ pages were all on the screen at once, each one very tiny, like thumbnails. Now, when I start a new document, the new doc page comes up teeny-tiny, WITH THAT DARN BLINKING "PERIOD" CURSOR! Please help! Thanks! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: In the Control Panel, under the Accessibility OptionsDisplay, you can change the width that will certainly make it more visible. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Bert Coules" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2000 under Windows XP Pro SP2. Is it possible to change the appearance of the insertion point cursor? I know that the blink rate of the vertical line can be adjusted right down to zero, but what I'd really like to do is change the vertical line to a horizontal underscore. The possibility doesn't seem to be mentioned in the help file, and a Google search didn't throw anything up, but can it be done? Many thanks, Bert www.bertcoules.co.uk |
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The most bizarre fix!
I've also found if you open your Display Properties, make no changes, and
then click OK it resolves it as well. I'm not sure what causes it either but I encountered it frequently when using Word 2003. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "topnurse" wrote in message ... After looking through other discussion sections here, I found a fix for a fairly similar problem - I decided to try it since it was so odd. It worked! I brought the doc up to 500%, and then back down to 100%. Crazy! But it worked. Live and learn.......... Topnurse "topnurse" wrote: Hi! My problem is similar, sort of: I have been using Word documents forever - all of a sudden, the blinking cursor is a dot, like a "period" It is awful! I can't see it at all. Very frustrating. I tried your fix but the control panel isn't specifically for Word. This only happens in Word. Let me add one interesting point, that may be a clue: right before this happened, I was scroling down a long document and must have touched something - all of a sudden, the 20+ pages were all on the screen at once, each one very tiny, like thumbnails. Now, when I start a new document, the new doc page comes up teeny-tiny, WITH THAT DARN BLINKING "PERIOD" CURSOR! Please help! Thanks! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: In the Control Panel, under the Accessibility OptionsDisplay, you can change the width that will certainly make it more visible. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Bert Coules" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2000 under Windows XP Pro SP2. Is it possible to change the appearance of the insertion point cursor? I know that the blink rate of the vertical line can be adjusted right down to zero, but what I'd really like to do is change the vertical line to a horizontal underscore. The possibility doesn't seem to be mentioned in the help file, and a Google search didn't throw anything up, but can it be done? Many thanks, Bert www.bertcoules.co.uk |
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Chaning the cursor - can it be done?
Doug Robbins wrote:
In the Control Panel, under the Accessibility OptionsDisplay, you can change the width that will certainly make it more visible. Doug, I just tried this. I discovered that, bizarrely, changing the width of the cursor in Accessibility Options makes no difference to its appearance in Word (though it has changed here, in Outlook Express). Altering the blink rate, however, *does* have an immediate effect in Word. I also found that reducing the blink rate to zero actually made the cursor in Word *disappear* for most of the time. Strange... Bert www.bertcoules.co.uk |
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Chaning the cursor - can it be done?
Changing the width definitely makes a difference in Word 2007 on my
computer. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Bert Coules" wrote in message ... Doug Robbins wrote: In the Control Panel, under the Accessibility OptionsDisplay, you can change the width that will certainly make it more visible. Doug, I just tried this. I discovered that, bizarrely, changing the width of the cursor in Accessibility Options makes no difference to its appearance in Word (though it has changed here, in Outlook Express). Altering the blink rate, however, *does* have an immediate effect in Word. I also found that reducing the blink rate to zero actually made the cursor in Word *disappear* for most of the time. Strange... Bert www.bertcoules.co.uk |
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Chaning the cursor - can it be done?
Doug Robbins wrote:
Changing the width definitely makes a difference in Word 2007 on my computer. Perhaps it's a feature that was only brought in after Word 2000? Certainly, it has no effect on that program, on my machine, at least. Thanks for your advice. Bert www.bertcoules.co.uk |
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