That’s the one. AR found your answer AOR, it’s an OS setting, win2K might not actually have it (I don’t have a 2K machine handy to check) but XP definitely does, Control Panel, Printers and Other Hardware, Mouse, Pointer Options, down near the bottom is Hide Cursor When Typing. Of course navigation would be completely different in 2K, other than starting in Control Panel, if it has the option.
See, lots of little checkboxes. I knew there was an option for this, but I was poking around in Word’s settings looking for it, not the OS.
Thanks, much; but that is already checked.
What happens is the mouse's arrowhead shaped pointer changes into an "I" shaped pointer , when the arrow passes over a box into which I can type, like the one I'm typing in now.
The "I" shaped pointer is still visible, and right now is obscuring two letters in words on two lines.
To be fair, sometimes when I start to type it does disappear--but just as often I have to grab the mouse to make it go away (infuriating to a touch typist, when having to constantly do this, esp. when entering data into database fields).
Flaky, like every other thing MS does.
Thanks, everyone, but we've wasted too much time on this already.
by the time we figure out even this little thing--if it can be figured out--the software will be outdated anyhow, and it's on to the latest bug release.