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What's the cursor that looks like a compass?
Herb
Thanks. I haven't got an 'Intellipoint' mouse to test this. Obviously, my memory of the AutoScroll pointer is about par! Terry "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... Terry -- Horizontal scrolling is enabled--and it works in other contexts. But, when I toggle AutoScroll, I still see only the vertical arrows. I just verified this on two different computers. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word Bible Blog: http://word.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... Herb You only get 4 arrows if your mouse supports sideways scrolling and the option is enables in Intellipoint. Terry "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... If it is accidental AutoScroll, then pressing the Esc key turns it off. If you're using IntelliPoint, you can change the assignment to the wheel click in your Mouse settings (control panel). Here... I see something similar when the wheel click is assigned to the AutoScroll function, but I see only two arrows (up/down), rather than four. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word Bible Blog: http://word.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... Possibly this is the AutoScroll function usually triggered by clicking the scroll wheel on your mouse. In a long document, if you trigger the AutoScroll function. you get the 'compass-like' cursor symbol. If you move the mouse up or down, the pages will start scrolling up or down: the further you move it from its 'start' point (that's the point where the mouse pointer was at the time you clicked the scroll button), the faster it will scroll. If your mouse supports sideways scrolling, you can scroll across a large spreadsheet as well as up and down. The usual reason for accidental triggering is your mouse is knackered and the scroll wheel 'click' function has become weak so that it clicks when you only want to scroll. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "christophercbrewster via OfficeKB.com" u3143@uwe wrote in message news:a5bf872e97c8d@uwe... Every so often my cursor changes to a symbol that has a round dot surrounded by 4 pointers. It doesn't do quite what a normal cursor does and I don't see how to get the normal one back. What is this other cursor for, and why do I get it randomly? -- Christopher Brewster Lockheed Martin, Eagan MN Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...neral/201003/1 |
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What's the cursor that looks like a compass?
Herb
That explains where I've seen it then: in Excel! Terry "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... It turns out that I can get the 4-pointed cursor, too... but not in Word. It does show up in Excel (where it's of more use), but wouldn't be very useful for me in Word, since I typically don't have Word documents that are that wide. I'm now wondering just what circumstance one would need for it to work in a Word document. Creating a very wide document didn't do it. In any case, I'm glad you have a way out--but I'm surprised that Escape doesn't do it. I also find that pressing any key--backspace, space, Ctrl, Shift, a letter, Enter, etc.--also turns off AutoScroll here. So does clicking any of the other mouse buttons. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word Bible Blog: http://word.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com |
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