I find it difficult to see the blinking, thin vertical bar cursor in MS Word (Word for Mac 2011, ver. 14.2.5).

Is it possible to change the cursor style to a box or something more easily seen?

I have already tried altering the accessibility settings on the OS as a whole but this did not alter the cursor in Word.

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You can change the speed of the blinking, which makes it easier to see the cursor:

1. Quit all Microsoft Office apps
2. Open a Terminal window (it's in the Utilities list of the Applications list in Finder)

3. Paste in the following (it will match the cursor blink rate with that of the rest of the system):.

   defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Word.plist NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriod -int 500

   The 500 is milliseconds. You can set it lower if you prefer (I find 250 is better)

To restore the default:

defaults delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Word.plist NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriod

Above steps are from

Try this combination of settings. 1. In Mac OS System preferences, in the Accessibility preferences, set the display to grayscale 2. In Word preferences, General preferences, click the check box Blue Background, white text

This combination of settings will give you a crisp, black background on which to type. The insertion cursor will blink white.

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