Cursor turns into a small circle with four pointers in Illustrator

[georgea34806814]

For the past week my arrow pointers at times, when over tool bar or the File, Edit etc. bar turn into a small circle with four pointers, a bit like a target. Any ideas why?

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[Bill Silbert]

What version of Illustrator and what operating system are you using? Have you recently updated your operating system?

[Monika Gause]

Is Caps Lock on?

[Srishti Bali]

Hi George,

Sorry to hear about this. I would request if you can share a few screenshots, along with the details asked by Monika and Bill.

Regards,

Srishti

[mark-heaps]

It sounds like an eyedropper sampler target. Is it only showing up when you are over the toolbar and over the file menu?

[Joan29111648tlsz]

Did anyone find a solution to this? It's started happening to me. I select eyedropper and I get the little target symbol instead of the pipette symbol. But not everytime. Sometimes it's the pipette and sometimes it's not.

[Bobby Henderson]

Is your caps lock key on?

[Joan29111648tlsz]

No.  At least, not that I am aware. I'll watch for that. I did disable the capslock on my keyboard, because I hit it by accident all the time. IT repaired it, however, thinking it was just broken.
So maybe I'm hitting it without realising, thanks for the headsup.

[Bobby Henderson]

The CapsLock key is normally what toggles the eyedropper tool icon into a target symbol. If the keyboard's functions have been altered it might be possible the change is causing the target icon to override the eyedropper icon.