Word cursor size

[Stanley_Jones]

How does one increase the size or darkness of the cursor/space holder in Word? Apple Preferences allows the OS cursor to be increased in size, but the Word cursor seems inaccessible. It is very skinny and faint - we of weak eyes lose track of it on the page - drives you nuts!!!!

 

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How does one increase the size or darkness of the cursor/space holder in Word?
Apple Preferences allows the OS cursor to be increased in size, but the Word
cursor seems inaccessible. It is very skinny and faint - we of weak eyes lose
track of it on the page - drives you nuts!!!!

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[Matt Centurión [MSFT]]

Hi Stanley,

Unfortunately the OS only lets you increase the size of the mouse pointer
not the insertion cursor (the blinking |). You'll notice that the same is
true in other apps such as TextEdit.

2 possible suggestions might be to increase the page "zoom" which will make
the blinking | taller and more visible. Look on the Standard toolbar in each
of the apps for a dropdown labelled "Zoom". The other option is to use OS
X's Zoom feature to increase everything on screen.

Matt
MacOffice Testing
Microsoft


Date: 2/20/08 3:06 PM / From: "(e-mail address removed)"

 

[Diane Ross]

There are third party products that will do this.

Do a search on Version Tracker <http://www.versiontracker.com> for cursor
and you'll find several.

This one is freeware and has 5 stars.

Cursor Zoom 1.0.4 software download - Mac OS X - VersionTracker
<http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16106>

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Diane

From: "Matt Centurión [MSFT]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:46:23 -0800
Subject: Re: Word cursor size

Hi Stanley,

Unfortunately the OS only lets you increase the size of the mouse pointer
not the insertion cursor (the blinking |). You'll notice that the same is
true in other apps such as TextEdit.

2 possible suggestions might be to increase the page "zoom" which will make
the blinking | taller and more visible. Look on the Standard toolbar in each
of the apps for a dropdown labelled "Zoom". The other option is to use OS
X's Zoom feature to increase everything on screen.

Matt
MacOffice Testing
Microsoft


Date: 2/20/08 3:06 PM / From: "(e-mail address removed)"

How does one increase the size or darkness of the cursor/space holder in
Word?
Apple Preferences allows the OS cursor to be increased in size, but the Word
cursor seems inaccessible. It is very skinny and faint - we of weak eyes lose
track of it on the page - drives you nuts!!!!

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