cursor height

[Pablo Cardellino]

Hi,
as we know, the keyboard cursor is a vertical dash that keeps
"twinkleing" (I don't know if this is the correct word in English; I
mean it turns on and off endlessly) and has the same height as the font
we're typing.

Well, sometimes, I don't know why, its height -- just in Word -- becomes
half or even less than the height of the font I'm typing. Right now it
has about 1px more than the height of a dot, being that the font height
is 12 points and the zoom is 180% on a 1280px x 1024 px screen (I don't
know if this details matter)

Does anybody knows why this happens and how to avoid it?

Thanks in advance,

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi Pablo,

We don't know why it happens, but many of us have seen it from time to time.
Usually it can be fixed by changing the zoom to 500% and back to your
preferred zoom.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Pablo Cardellino]

Jay Freedman escribió:

Hi Pablo,

We don't know why it happens, but many of us have seen it from time to time.
Usually it can be fixed by changing the zoom to 500% and back to your
preferred zoom.

Thanks, Jay

at least it's good to know that it's a known problem, not linked to a
template I've installed. Would it be possible to set an application
listener for detecting the "low cursor state", and correcting it, even
if it only was possible by switching the zoom to 500% and back to the
original view, through vba?

Regards,

 

[Jay Freedman]

Jay Freedman escribió:


Thanks, Jay

at least it's good to know that it's a known problem, not linked to a
template I've installed. Would it be possible to set an application
listener for detecting the "low cursor state", and correcting it, even
if it only was possible by switching the zoom to 500% and back to the
original view, through vba?

Regards,

I don't think VBA has any way of knowing what the cursor's size is -- it
just isn't part of the object model. Even if it did, I'd be very wary of
continuously running an event handler in the background, because it can
seriously degrade performance.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Switching to 500% Zoom and back usually fixes this at least temporarily.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Pablo Cardellino]

Jay Freedman escribió:

I don't think VBA has any way of knowing what the cursor's size is -- it
just isn't part of the object model. Even if it did, I'd be very wary of
continuously running an event handler in the background, because it can
seriously degrade performance.

yeah, I guess it can... better just this macro and a shortcut or a button:

Sub restoreCursorHeight()
Dim z As Integer
z = ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom.Percentage
ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom.Percentage = 500
ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom.Percentage = z
End Sub

Thanks, Jay