Pointer (cursor) disappears when using MBA (2013) trackpad to move into italicized text in Mac for Word 2011

This is happening to me too! It's really annoying; I have to guess where my cursor will land (and I usually get it wrong - so this wastes a lot of time). I hope someone might fix it for us all soon.

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I too have this very same problem. I have tried everything. EVERYTHING. I hope to God that Microsoft decides to fix it sometime soon. They don't seem to have been in a rush to do so.

I guess Finluxx's wierd discovery regarding the external display must be a clue, if it can be replicated. I don't have any external display to try it on, but I would be curious to know.

This same issue just started today in Word 2011. I've unchecked the "autohide rulers" and it seemed to help for a couple minutes. Once I save it is back to the same issue. As some have suggested I've switched views and that doesn't help. My job is 100% dependent on Word and editing within Word. This is a MAJOR issue!

I thought it may be connected to working in a document with macros but when I open other documents the issue persists. I restarted Word and that helped for a short time. I disconnected my second monitor to see if that was affecting it, and I still had the same issue. HELP!!!

I hope some can offer another suggestion that will bring my cursor back.

I am experiencing the invisible cursor problem across multiple Macs... Principally inside table layouts...

All machines are using the most current updates of Word & Office 2011, v14.3.8, and are either using Mountain Lion with latest patches (OS X v10.8.5), or Mavericks (OS X v10.9).

I can confirm that removing italics appeared to help the issue, but only after the cursor had been moved away from the first-character position, was visibility is restored.

Having still experienced the invisible cursor when clicking in a blank table cell... and not being given any indication to the active cursor position until I begin typing, I began to think it might be a problem with the table rendering on top of the cursor.

To confirm, I selected the table using the icon at the upper-left of the table (shown below)

Then, I selected the "Table" tab on the toolbar, and applied the first table-format style (shown below)

The application of this default style, seemed to eliminate the problem of cursor & table overlap. Now the cursor is visible when clicking inside of any cell in the table.

Hopefully this helps others experiencing similar issues.

-JAdik

Hi guys, Just to let you know that this italic/cursor thing is not just an MBA issue. I am using an IMac with Mavericks and having the same snag

Yesterday, I updated both Mavericks and Word. I am happy to report that this problem finally seems to be fixed! FIXED!

This didn't work for me, however... I ended up changing the table I had by turning off "automatically resize to fit contents" and it fixed itself.

Which is good, because that autoresize was driving me crazy...