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Help! My cursor shrunk to what seems to be a font 2 or 3 size. What
happened? It's on all of my documents now, so it has to be some kind of a general control on my global template. Thank you for any assistance you may be able to provide. Mad Dog |
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Hi,
quoting Jay Freedman: "Change the zoom setting to 500% and back to 100%." -- Greetings from Bavaria, Germany Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA Win XP, Office 2003 "red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de" |
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Mad Dog wrote:
Help! My cursor shrunk to what seems to be a font 2 or 3 size. What happened? It's on all of my documents now, so it has to be some kind of a general control on my global template. Thank you for any assistance you may be able to provide. Mad Dog Switch to 500% zoom and back again. (We don't know why it happens or why this fixes it.) -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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I have the same problem, and it can be fixed by changing the zoom or by
changing to Read layout and back again. But I find these are temporary fixes and when I close out of Word and go back in, the problem is there again. My small cursor has only appeared in the last day or so. Does anyone know of a permanent fix ?? "Jay Freedman" wrote: Mad Dog wrote: Help! My cursor shrunk to what seems to be a font 2 or 3 size. What happened? It's on all of my documents now, so it has to be some kind of a general control on my global template. Thank you for any assistance you may be able to provide. Mad Dog Switch to 500% zoom and back again. (We don't know why it happens or why this fixes it.) -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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There is supposed to be permanent fix by accessing the Command Prompt. I
tried it but it doesn' change the size either. Go to START-ACCESSORIES-COMMAND PROMPT. Right click on the diaglog box title and SELECT Defaults, then check the size under OPTIONS - maybe it will work for you - it didn't for me so it is still a mystery. Using the ZOOM procedure works but is only temporary for the current document. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It's unlikely anyone will be able to come up with a permanent fix until someone figures out what's causing it, and so far apparently no one knows. -- 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. "Neil McCready" Neil wrote in message ... I have the same problem, and it can be fixed by changing the zoom or by changing to Read layout and back again. But I find these are temporary fixes and when I close out of Word and go back in, the problem is there again. My small cursor has only appeared in the last day or so. Does anyone know of a permanent fix ?? "Jay Freedman" wrote: Mad Dog wrote: Help! My cursor shrunk to what seems to be a font 2 or 3 size. What happened? It's on all of my documents now, so it has to be some kind of a general control on my global template. Thank you for any assistance you may be able to provide. Mad Dog Switch to 500% zoom and back again. (We don't know why it happens or why this fixes it.) -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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I don't see how settings for the Command Prompt could make a
difference in Word. But note that you can use auto macros in normal.dot to apply the "zoom fix." See the examples at http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Over The Hill" wrote in message ... There is supposed to be permanent fix by accessing the Command Prompt. I tried it but it doesn' change the size either. Go to START-ACCESSORIES-COMMAND PROMPT. Right click on the diaglog box title and SELECT Defaults, then check the size under OPTIONS - maybe it will work for you - it didn't for me so it is still a mystery. Using the ZOOM procedure works but is only temporary for the current document. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It's unlikely anyone will be able to come up with a permanent fix until someone figures out what's causing it, and so far apparently no one knows. -- 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. "Neil McCready" Neil wrote in message ... I have the same problem, and it can be fixed by changing the zoom or by changing to Read layout and back again. But I find these are temporary fixes and when I close out of Word and go back in, the problem is there again. My small cursor has only appeared in the last day or so. Does anyone know of a permanent fix ?? "Jay Freedman" wrote: Mad Dog wrote: Help! My cursor shrunk to what seems to be a font 2 or 3 size. What happened? It's on all of my documents now, so it has to be some kind of a general control on my global template. Thank you for any assistance you may be able to provide. Mad Dog Switch to 500% zoom and back again. (We don't know why it happens or why this fixes it.) -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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On Feb 15, 12:44 pm, "Stefan Blom" wrote:
I don't see how settings for the Command Prompt could make a difference in Word. But note that you can use auto macros in normal.dot to apply the "zoom fix." See the examples athttp://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Over The Hill" wrote in message ... There is supposed to be permanent fix by accessing the Command Prompt. I tried it but it doesn' change the size either. Go to START-ACCESSORIES-COMMAND PROMPT. Right click on the diaglog box title and SELECT Defaults, then check the size under OPTIONS - maybe it will work for you - it didn't for me so it is still a mystery. Using the ZOOM procedure works but is only temporary for the current document. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It's unlikely anyone will be able to come up with a permanent fix until someone figures out what's causing it, and so far apparently no one knows. -- 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. "Neil McCready" Neil wrote in message ... I have the same problem, and it can be fixed by changing the zoom or by changing to Read layout and back again. But I find these are temporary fixes and when I close out of Word and go back in, the problem is there again. My small cursor has only appeared in the last day or so. Does anyone know of a permanent fix ?? "Jay Freedman" wrote: Mad Dog wrote: Help! My cursor shrunk to what seems to be a font 2 or 3 size. What happened? It's on all of my documents now, so it has to be some kind of a general control on my global template. Thank you for any assistance you may be able to provide. Mad Dog Switch to 500% zoom and back again. (We don't know why it happens or why this fixes it.) -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I know this is a bit late and many of you may have found a cure but I thought I would post the solution I used to solve the problem for any future sufferers: 1) Shut down Microsoft Word (and Outlook if it uses Word). 2) Go to Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Microsoft \Templates and rename normal.dot to "normal1.dot". 3) Start Word, close the blank document that appears, and load the 'problem' document template (now normal1.dot) using file-open and navigating to it as in 2). 4) Correct the cursor (if neccesary) and add a toolbar using view- toolbars (I selected 'Email'). 5) Save the document and exit Word 6) Go back to Templates and delete the newly created normal.dot and rename "normal1.dot" back to "normal.dot" 7) restart Word and remove the toolbar you added (just to return to your previous layout). This worked for me so I hope it is a universal fix. |
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In case it helps someone figure out why this happens, I noticed that the
problem for me began as soon as I opened a document in which I had just recorded a macro and had set macro security to medium so that it would function (with the usual macro nag message.) As soon as I opened that document, the cursor became tiny in all subsequent Word .docs. The 'fix' described below worked great for me....until later in the day when I re-opened that original document containing my macro. The cursor immediately became tiny again. So, at least on my PC, it's controllably repeatable. There's nothing very strange about my macro - it's just something simple that I recorded with Word's Macro button. So I'm wondering if this tiny cursor problem is either triggered in some cases by some combination of macro enablement and macro security settings, or possibly it's a yet-undiscovered Word macro virus that has stealthily infected thousands of PCs but only gets activated when someone enables macros and/or configure macro security a certain way. Here's the macro I recorded, in case anyone's curious..it just creates a macro 'button' entiitled "New Event" that when single-clicked, initiates a one- line entry into my daily 'event log' and then re-creates itself at the top of the page for the next invocation. I use it to list the important things that happened each day: Sub anevent() ' ' anevent Macro ' Macro recorded 7/4/07 by Bob ' Selection.Fields.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Type:=wdFieldEmpty, Text:= _ "MACROBUTTON anevent New Event", PreserveFormatting:=False Selection.TypeParagraph Selection.TypeParagraph With Selection.ParagraphFormat .Borders(wdBorderLeft).LineStyle = wdLineStyleNone .Borders(wdBorderRight).LineStyle = wdLineStyleNone With .Borders(wdBorderTop) .LineStyle = wdLineStyleSingle .LineWidth = wdLineWidth025pt .Color = wdColorBlack End With .Borders(wdBorderBottom).LineStyle = wdLineStyleNone With .Borders .DistanceFromTop = 1 .DistanceFromLeft = 4 .DistanceFromBottom = 1 .DistanceFromRight = 4 .Shadow = False End With End With With Options .DefaultBorderLineStyle = wdLineStyleSingle .DefaultBorderLineWidth = wdLineWidth025pt .DefaultBorderColor = wdColorBlack End With Selection.InsertDateTime DateTimeFormat:="M/d/yy h:mm AM/PM", _ InsertAsField:=False Selection.TypeText Text:=": " Options.ButtonFieldClicks = 1 End Sub I know this is a bit late and many of you may have found a cure but I thought I would post the solution I used to solve the problem for any future sufferers: 1) Shut down Microsoft Word (and Outlook if it uses Word). 2) Go to Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Microsoft \Templates and rename normal.dot to "normal1.dot". 3) Start Word, close the blank document that appears, and load the 'problem' document template (now normal1.dot) using file-open and navigating to it as in 2). 4) Correct the cursor (if neccesary) and add a toolbar using view- toolbars (I selected 'Email'). 5) Save the document and exit Word 6) Go back to Templates and delete the newly created normal.dot and rename "normal1.dot" back to "normal.dot" 7) restart Word and remove the toolbar you added (just to return to your previous layout). This worked for me so I hope it is a universal fix. |
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It must be something peculiar to your PC as a document with that macro does
nothing to misbehave here. You can fix this problem permanently by adding the following lines to an autonew macro in normal.dot With ActiveWindow.View .Type = wdPrintView .Zoom.Percentage = 500 .Zoom.Percentage = 100 'set your preferred percentage End With see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org JustSomeGuy wrote: In case it helps someone figure out why this happens, I noticed that the problem for me began as soon as I opened a document in which I had just recorded a macro and had set macro security to medium so that it would function (with the usual macro nag message.) As soon as I opened that document, the cursor became tiny in all subsequent Word .docs. The 'fix' described below worked great for me....until later in the day when I re-opened that original document containing my macro. The cursor immediately became tiny again. So, at least on my PC, it's controllably repeatable. There's nothing very strange about my macro - it's just something simple that I recorded with Word's Macro button. So I'm wondering if this tiny cursor problem is either triggered in some cases by some combination of macro enablement and macro security settings, or possibly it's a yet-undiscovered Word macro virus that has stealthily infected thousands of PCs but only gets activated when someone enables macros and/or configure macro security a certain way. Here's the macro I recorded, in case anyone's curious..it just creates a macro 'button' entiitled "New Event" that when single-clicked, initiates a one- line entry into my daily 'event log' and then re-creates itself at the top of the page for the next invocation. I use it to list the important things that happened each day: Sub anevent() ' ' anevent Macro ' Macro recorded 7/4/07 by Bob ' Selection.Fields.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Type:=wdFieldEmpty, Text:= _ "MACROBUTTON anevent New Event", PreserveFormatting:=False Selection.TypeParagraph Selection.TypeParagraph With Selection.ParagraphFormat .Borders(wdBorderLeft).LineStyle = wdLineStyleNone .Borders(wdBorderRight).LineStyle = wdLineStyleNone With .Borders(wdBorderTop) .LineStyle = wdLineStyleSingle .LineWidth = wdLineWidth025pt .Color = wdColorBlack End With .Borders(wdBorderBottom).LineStyle = wdLineStyleNone With .Borders .DistanceFromTop = 1 .DistanceFromLeft = 4 .DistanceFromBottom = 1 .DistanceFromRight = 4 .Shadow = False End With End With With Options .DefaultBorderLineStyle = wdLineStyleSingle .DefaultBorderLineWidth = wdLineWidth025pt .DefaultBorderColor = wdColorBlack End With Selection.InsertDateTime DateTimeFormat:="M/d/yy h:mm AM/PM", _ InsertAsField:=False Selection.TypeText Text:=": " Options.ButtonFieldClicks = 1 End Sub I know this is a bit late and many of you may have found a cure but I thought I would post the solution I used to solve the problem for any future sufferers: 1) Shut down Microsoft Word (and Outlook if it uses Word). 2) Go to Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Microsoft \Templates and rename normal.dot to "normal1.dot". 3) Start Word, close the blank document that appears, and load the 'problem' document template (now normal1.dot) using file-open and navigating to it as in 2). 4) Correct the cursor (if neccesary) and add a toolbar using view- toolbars (I selected 'Email'). 5) Save the document and exit Word 6) Go back to Templates and delete the newly created normal.dot and rename "normal1.dot" back to "normal.dot" 7) restart Word and remove the toolbar you added (just to return to your previous layout). This worked for me so I hope it is a universal fix. |
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"Mad Dog" wrote: Help! My cursor shrunk to what seems to be a font 2 or 3 size. What happened? It's on all of my documents now, so it has to be some kind of a general control on my global template. Thank you for any assistance you may be able to provide. Mad Dog |
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Change the Zoom to 500% and back.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "wae_teaina" wrote in message ... "Mad Dog" wrote: Help! My cursor shrunk to what seems to be a font 2 or 3 size. What happened? It's on all of my documents now, so it has to be some kind of a general control on my global template. Thank you for any assistance you may be able to provide. Mad Dog |