Microsoft Word 2003 – Tiny blinking cursor!
If you experience a teeny tiny cursor in Microsoft Word 2003 then I have a very simple fix for you! (Probably so simple you will curse yourself for not thinking of it earlier!)
On the Standard toolbar – Select the zoom option and set it to 500% and then set it back to 100%.
Your tiny cursor should now be blinking away in all its full size glory!
Ben
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A little follow up after a bit more research in to this one. If the problem appears frequently then you can add a small piece of code provided by Word MVP Graham Mayor.
Simply add the following code to run when Word opens.
With ActiveWindow.View
.Type = wdPrintView
.Zoom.Percentage = 500
.Zoom.Percentage = 100
End With
If you wish to use a different zoom than 100% simply change the second .Zoom.Percentage to reflect that.
Brilliant! Works like a charm! Thanks!
My morning is saved!
ARE YOU SERIOUS? I have been slaving over my thesis for several hours with a miserable little blinking dot. I have been going CRAZY searching for settings to reset it. My sister suggested googling the issue and I found this. While I feel like an idiot, YOU SAVED MY DAY! Thank you so much!
Thks a lot. To paraphrase some old saying about fighting dogs, it ain’t the silliness in the problem, but the happiness in its solution what matters
Brilliant!
why does this happen??? did the people on word just stick this stupid trick in every so often just to annoy us? THANK YOU SO MUCH for the solution!! it bugs me to death!
THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never had this problem before until today, was going mad trying to find cursor settings, anyway this fixed it! Thanks! How did you figure this one out? So far I have not been able to replicate this bug….
Thank you!!!!!!!!
Hello,
I have Window Word 97. I tried to go to the “View” tab, then clicked on zoom to 500% then back to 100% but it still doesn’t work.
Do you have any advice for my Window version? Thanks!
thank you soo much.. it worked like brilliant!!!
YOU ARE MY HERO!! I’m reviewing reports that re 100+ pages and this was a TOTAL lifesaver!!! THANK YOU
I have used VBA in Excel but not in Word. So I would like to know where I put the module with Graham Mayor’s code. I cannot seem to find anything relevant in VBA help.
Brilliant. works like a charm.
Amazing. I was also very annoyed working on my thesis… and lost time with the very bad MS Office help. Rather than annoying us with Vistas and 2007s that we did not want and with their very bad user interface, they should be fixing bugs and improving what we know is bad !!!
Aghhh I LOVE YOU. Thanks soo much! These tedious annoying mishaps in the software, soo frustrating. Really glad to know i’m NOT the only one, and that there are solutions to it
yay! THANK YOU!!!
hahha….ur right…it’s so SIMPLE! Worked brillantly!
I LOVE YOU!!!!!! You saved my life!
There’s so many work to be done today and this tiny cursor makes me sick! But now I AM HAPPY ! Thanks to You!
Genius!!!
Worked Great.Good karma coming your way! Thank you
Thanks a lot!!!
Perfect!
You the man! Thanks for the helpful, life-saving I even dare to say, solution ^__^