Depending on your preferences in programs, you might find Word's blinking "insertion point" cursor to be bothersome. For instance, you might prefer that the insertion point actually blink at a different rate, or not at all.
There is no way within Word to control the insertion point in this way. However, you can affect its behavior by making some changes directly within Windows. Try following these steps if you are using Windows 7:
Figure 1. The Speed tab of the Keyboard Properties dialog box.
If you are using Windows XP, follow these much simpler steps instead:
Depending on your system, you may need to restart Windows in order for the change to take effect.
It should be noted that the above instructions will not work with all versions of Windows or with all keyboards. Different versions of Windows, for instance, have different steps you follow to display the Control Panel. (That should be obvious from comparing the Windows 7 instructions to the Windows XP instructions.) In addition, some non-standard keyboards may have their own setup programs that differ from the one used by my keyboard. In any event, if you are able to display the configuration program for your keyboard, it should have settings that allow you to control the blink rate of the cursor, as described above.
WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word training. (Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software in the world.) This tip (11796) applies to Microsoft Word 2007 and 2010. You can find a version of this tip for the older menu interface of Word here: Changing the Insertion Point Cursor.
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2021-10-26 05:32:27
Kiwerry
Windows 10: I opened Settings, typed "Cursor blink" into the "Find a setting" field, pressed "Enter". This brought up the dialogue shown in Fig. 1.
A previous attempt to find it by looking through what I thought were the appropriate menus in Setting failed.
2015-09-28 14:57:09
I force closed Word because of a mailmerge mashup and when I restarted the Insertion Point was smaller than a period - almost invisible. How do I recover the original IP?
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