MS Word question

Factual Questions
1

We have MS Office 2013 and MS Word 2016. Whenever I mouse-click in a word in a table, the text-select marker (I don’t mean the mouse pointer or cursor btw. I mean the vertical line that normally is visible between characters (or wherever) and remains there regardless of where the mouse moves) becomes completely invisible, leaving me using a combination of shift-arrow keys in order to grey-out a couple of characters.

Strangely though, if I position the mouse over the ribbons/task bars, and scroll-bars, the marker appears and is clearly visible and flashing.

Is anyone familiar with this and is there a way of making this thing permanently visible?
Thanks

2

This tends to be a function of the specific video card and driver, in my experience. You might try updating the video driver if it’s not completely current.

3

Yeah, and sounds like just the kind of thing that came with, and will probably disappear in, some stealth Win10 upgrade.

4

I’ve seen this happen in earlier versions of MS Word too. The marker is there, just not visible.

Word isn’t too good with tables. Sometimes just moving a cell division line causes Word to crash. I have a better experience making the table in Excel and then copying it over.

5

This very definitely