how do I change my word cursor from a tiny dot to reguluar size?

[Mad Sheep]

My word cursor suddenly changed to a tiny flashing dot from its reguluar
size. How can I change it back.
Thanks

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Switch to 500% Zoom and back.

 

[Tony Jollans]

I have started experiencing this recently but can't attribute it to any
change in particular. It first started a week or two ago and I have since
reinstalled Windows and the only constant would seem to be my templates
(normal & other global)

So far I have always found that (pressing Ctrl and) a single mouse wheel
click in either direction is sufficient to correct it. I know others have
reported that simply changing Zoom isn't sufficient but just thought I'd
post my experience.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I have experienced this only once, within the last couple of weeks, and it
was when I was doing something unusual. I forget whether I had just
installed new software (SnagIt?) or had just had a problem with a document
hanging or something, but it was definitely an anomaly, and I have seen it
only that one time.

 

[Graham Mayor]

After it happened to me a couple of times I modified my autoopen and autonew
macros to cover this issue and I have not seen it since.

With ActiveWindow.View
.Type = wdPrintView
.Zoom.Percentage = 500
.Zoom.Percentage = 110 'the eyes are not what they were!
End With

The only time this switch is ever noticed in use is when running macro code
that opens a new document to perform some task or other, when you see the
500% zoom momentarily.
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Interesting. I find 105% comfortable for 12-point text on my 17" CRT screen,
but I do have special computer glasses optimized for the distance from my
eyes to the screen (I'm severely myopic, so these are basically the same as
the "reading" prescription in my progressive bifocals).

 

[Graham Mayor]

I work with 11 point ZapfHumnst BT for most of my personal documents and for
that I like 110% zoom. I can manage with 100%, but it gets tiring when
working for long periods. I too have special computer glasses which are
slightly weaker than my normal reading lenses to allow for the greater
distance twixt eye and screen.

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[Tony Jollans]

I have one document - the one where I first remember seeing this problem
which, maybe 1 time in 4, opens with the small cursor - but I can't pin down
any common factor. I can correct it easily enough (with zoom) but with 100%
consistency if I double click in the header and then double click back in
the document the small cursor returns.

 

[Tony Jollans]

If anybody is still interested I am finding this happening more and more and
have tried to investigate.

Others may have different symptoms (and indeed I think I may have had, but
can't be certain) but for me at the moment it only appears to happen when
the zoom is set to greater than 100% and Word seems to be drawing the cursor
to the size it would be at 100% zoom regardless of the actual zoom - hence
at 200% the cursor appears half size and at 500%, fifth size - at less than
100% it appears correct - any change to the zoom (in my experience, though
apparently not true for all) forces a (correct) recalculation of the cursor
size.

As said before double clicking in the header and then double clicking back
in the document brings back the small cursor.

When it happens the symptoms can be seem in all Documents opened during the
Word session. When it doesn't happen it doesn't happen in any document
during the Word session.