March 14, 2003
Erratic Pointer In PowerPoint Presentations
QUESTION: The timing of the appearance of the pointer (arrow)
appears erratic in my PP presentations, on some slides it is
hidden, on others it appears after some delay, even when the
mouse has been moved rapidly. The pointer appears immediately
if I use the 'Control & A' keys or the pointer 'options'
commands on the menu displayed with the right mouse button. Can
I reset the default pointer to always display (as an arrow)
during a presentation, or write in a command when authoring or
opening the program to force this default?
ANSWER: From your description it would seem that your PC has
some other application running in the background which is
somehow handicapping the performance of your pointer display.
To check if this is the case simply make sure you are not
running any apps in the background and turn also off as many of
the little programs you have running in your system try at the
bottom right of your screen (simply right-click those icons and
"Exit" or "Turn off" the ones that allows so. They
will be automatically restarted the next time you restart your PC).
Unfortunately there is no "official" way to do what you
kindly ask. You can leverage the following shortcuts or maintain the
correct approach you have already adopted: Change the pointer
to a pen CTRL+P Change the pen to a pointer CTRL+A Hide the
pointer and button temporarily CTRL+H Hide the pointer and
button always CTRL+L
You could possibly automate this by way of creating a little
program that does it for you but it looks indeed not worth your
while.
On the other hand the mouse cursor appears always on standard
PCs with PowerPoint anytime you start moving your mouse, so
there is effectively no need for such a function.
You may also want to check for an updated driver of your
graphics card display adapter.
You can read this article in the original issue of MasterView.
posted by
Robin Good
on Friday, March 14 2003
Tuesday, January 15 2008
URL of this article:
http://masterview.ikonosnewmedia.com/2003/03/14/erratic_pointer_in_powerpoint_presentations.htm
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