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• • October 23, 2010 at 2:23 am #57472
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Every now and then it happens that I cannot find the cursor anymore – it's just disappeared after some Find/Replace or whatever. Well, I can push the arrow button and see whether the screen moves back to where the cursor is, or I can zoom in, but even this way it is difficult to locate the cursor position.

    Is there any way to find the cursor more cleverly?

  • October 23, 2010 at 6:23 am #57475
    David Blatner

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    I agree; this is frustrating. I usually just press cmd/ctrl-2 or -4 to zoom in to 200% or 400%. But if the text cursor may not be visible at all if it's selecting something that is overset (outside a frame). Try pressing Cmd/Ctrl-Y to open the story editor. Even better, set the story editor preferences to Barbell cursor, so you can see it even easier there.

  • October 26, 2010 at 6:33 am #57496
    Chris Thompson

    Member

    Another tip is to hold shift while pressing the left arrow key, which highlights text back from the cursor position. So long as the text isn't overset, and so long as your highlight colour is nice and contrasty, I find that chunk of highlight easier to spot than the thin I-beam cursor. Works in pretty much every program too, especially Word 2008, which has the annoying habit of not flashing the I-beam cursor sometimes.

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