Drawing Cursor Shape

[Chick]

In Word 2000 on my Windows 2000 computer, when I clicked
a shape button (e.g. arrow, basic shapes, line, etc) on
the drawing toolbar, the mouse cursor then changed into a
cross hair form that allowed me to precisely position my
drawing on the page. I recently exchanged that computer
for a newer model with Windows XP Pro (both are Dell
laptops) and installed Office 2000. I also copied all
prefs, styles, dictionaries, etc from the older computer
to the newer computer.

On the new computer,in Word 2000, when I click on a
button on the drawing toolbar (or draw a text box), the
cursor remains as a text cursor (and I-beam), and it is
difficult to determine where, within the I-beam my
drawing will be positioned. Interestingly, in Excel 2000
on the newer computer, pressing a button in the drawing
toolbar causes the cursor to change to a cross hair, as
it did on the old computer. The problem(s) is only in
Word. It is very frustrating. I haven't found anything in
any of the help files though I have searched extensively
within Microsoft Office 2000 and also on the Office
website. Why is word behaving this way, and how can I
recover my cross-hair after I press a button on the
drawing toolbar (or when I draw a textbox), as it is
works in Excel on the same computer?
..

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Hey, Chick. You have posted this same question several times in the
past two days, and here you are again. Your question has been answered
by at least two MVPs. What is your damage?

 

[Sunny]

Hey, Chick. You have posted this same question several times in the past
two days, and here you are again. Your question has been answered by at
least two MVPs. What is your damage?

X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
(should never have been "invented")

 

[Doug Robbins]

Click on the + button next to one of your original posts and you will see
that responses have previously be given.

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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP