Great to have a sample point - thanks!
Can anyone else verify having this issue or not?
DO ALL HASWELL MACs HAVE THIS ISSUE WITH WORD 2011?? (yikes!)
MORE BACKGROUND INFO:
I noticed this issue right away since the doc I needed to work on had a full paragraph italicized and wanted to edit it and could not see the insertion point so it was like herding cats...
I also notice that another state of the pointer has the same issue.The one where the insertion pointer has some "text" (3 horizontal lines) in the upper-right or upper-left. The pointer is supposed to change to this state when hovering in some places on hte sides of the page (not sure exactly where/why). Same things happens...
So, it seems there are some pointer states that are not rendered correctly. When the pointer is supposed to display that sprite, it looks like it inadvertantly also becomes very transparent so it is practically invisible. If you look carefully you can still see it and that is how I can verify the pointer sprite changes. Hovering back over regular text pointer displays normally again. Hovering over a link, the pointer switches to the hand sprite without an issue.
I was yesterday on the call with Microsoft for a while (support outsourced to India...) and after trying various things in remote session, they pointed to being an Apple issue. They did not have a Haswell chip configuration to test against and could not reproduce the issue.
Today I was on call with Apple support (US based - yey!) and still not able to resolve the issue or pinpoint its cause. No repro since the technician did not have access to a Haswell machine. We also did a font validation at the end of the call but forgot to review the results before hanging up. It shows 352 fonts passed and 21 minor problems found. Not sure how to interpret this and if helpful regarding my issue...