Curser Disappears

[Rosemarie]

This is a problem my mom is having on her new PC, I'm not familiar with it so
I shall discribe the problem as best I can.

The curser when in Word, Excel etc will disappear when she begins typing.
She has turned off the mouse setting that hides the curser when typing. So
that setting is not the problem. The curser will continue to be hidden after
clicking and moving it around. The curser can only be seen when it passes
over a menu but will not be seen on the actual page she is typing on. She is
using Windows Vista and Office 2003. Is there a fix for this or does anyone
have any ideas what is causing this? I've had this expirence with AutoCAD and
found that minimizing and maximizing the window will correct the error. This
however have failed to work with my mom's problem.

 

[Michael Solomon]

"Rosemarie" <Rosemarie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:11AA0F18-5EB8-4BC1-AD81-3383E6A1BD2E@microsoft.com...
> This is a problem my mom is having on her new PC, I'm not familiar with it
> so
> I shall discribe the problem as best I can.
>
> The curser when in Word, Excel etc will disappear when she begins typing.
> She has turned off the mouse setting that hides the curser when typing. So
> that setting is not the problem. The curser will continue to be hidden
> after
> clicking and moving it around. The curser can only be seen when it passes
> over a menu but will not be seen on the actual page she is typing on. She
> is
> using Windows Vista and Office 2003. Is there a fix for this or does
> anyone
> have any ideas what is causing this? I've had this expirence with AutoCAD
> and
> found that minimizing and maximizing the window will correct the error.
> This
> however have failed to work with my mom's problem.

Try this. Open Control Panel, open Mouse, go to the pointers tab, and
change the cursor type she is using. I use the arrow which gives the
resting cursor the appearance of an "I" in bold type but try others if that
doesn't suit her. Then, go to the Pointer Options tab and place a check
next to
"Show location of pointer when I press CTRL key," click apply and ok. Any
time thereafter that the cursor gets lost, she can find it by pressing the
control key
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Michael Solomon
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