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Amal, an Adobe Employee has been answering that this is a feature of Select Tool of Adobe Pro/Reader. Anyone has a better answer than that?
Here are links to when Amal that it is, but surely there's a tick box to remove this.
https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/what-is-this-strange-box-near-my-mouse-cursor-how...
https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/how-do-i-get-rid-of-the-strange-box-near-my-curso...
Here are other links that really didn't receive any answers or options only available on older versions of Adobe:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/pointer-has-a-box-attached/td-p/11116213
https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-reader-discussions/gray-box-next-to-cursor/td-p/13044812
Issue is, there's this annoying gray box beside my cursor. Whenever I try check other computers, some does some doesn't. If you ask the version I have, I have the most updated one freshly downloaded from the website. Anyone can help?
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Hope you are doing well and thanks for reaching out.
Please go through the correct answer marked in the similar discussion https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/how-do-i-get-rid-of-the-strange-box-near-my-curso... and see if that works for you.
~Amal
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So zero ways of removing it?
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There isn't much that we can do, as the grey box is the part of the select tool cursor icon. You may share your feedback with the engineering team using the link https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html
~Amal
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If you close Acrobat, the small square box will go away.
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I have tried everything suggested and hidden the tool screen. The grey box bars me from opening anything and I can't print. I've tried CtrlP to get around it but that didn't work. I can't select Edit or any of the Menu options with this box in situ. I am finding this very frustrating.
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@DeeDee1957 I honestly didn't even noticed that until you pointed that out! I am so used it to it I guess!
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