What do the Illustrator cursor symbols mean?

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February 13, 2020
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I am having trouble finding a guide to the cursor symbols in Illustrator. By this I mean the hover symbol that the cursor turns into when over different sections of the artboard. I have had a lot of trouble with the Text Tool, and I need to know what the cursor symbols mean but I can't find any guidance on this. Is there a guide or cheat sheet somewhere? Perhaps similar to a keyboard shortcut guide?

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Kurt Gold

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You would have to use a screenshot application that is able to capture the screen including the current cursor.

I guess there are such apps available for the Windows OS.

Kurt Gold

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I'm pretty sure it could be clarified if you were showing the cursor symbols that are causing trouble (whatever you mean by "trouble).

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hnichollAuthor

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They include a little black pointer with paragraph text, a little black pointer with a squiggle, a white pointer with a dotted square and others. There's a bunch. (I tried taking screenshots but the Windows keyboard commands switch my cursor to other Illustrator tools instead!). Basically, there are a lot of them I need to figure out so a cheat sheet would be really helpful.

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