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Ben283016775bkf
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February 7, 2023
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The flashing cursor is not visible if I click in text on the right side of the screen/page

  • February 7, 2023
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I have Windows 10 and use Illustrator CS3 13.0.0.  I create our monthly newsletter in Illustrator.  It's a basic document with some graphics and paragraphs of text.  The header and footer are part of a large graphic with text arranged to the front.  When I have a paragraph of text, I can click among the words and the flashing cursor appears so I know where it is and can arrow over to a spot I want.  HOWEVER, if I click in any text on the right 1/3 of the document (doesn't matter what text), the cursor is not visible.  It's there, as I can start typing or hit Delete/Backspace and letters appear/disappear but I can't see the actual flashing line cursor.  

 

Even if I click in the left 2/3 of the document and get a visible flashing cursor and then start hitting the right arrow key to go over to the right, when it crosses that "line" the cursor disappears.  I attached two screen shots of what I see.  In the first, I clicked right before the word "paper" in the text.  The cursor was there.  Then I clicked after the word "ballot" and the cursor is not visible.  I know it's there, but not visible.  Not even one quick blink.

 

Any ideas??

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Correct answer Met1

Try to copy and paste a whole page into a new doc and see if it goes away.

If not there's some corruption on that page - luckily not enough to screw up your doc but annoying.

If it goes away just repeat for your remaining artboards/pages, at least you won't have to start from scratch.

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Ben283016775bkfAuthor
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February 7, 2023

So, one test I just ran (never thought of this until after posting) is to start a brand new document.  It does NOT have this problem in a new document.  Since this is a monthly newsletter I've been doing for years, I just use the previous months' files to start the new one.  This is also the only thing I use Illustrator for so I've never tested it with other files.  Whatever the problem is/was, I guess I'll just start a new newsletter next month and that will correct the problem.  No need to respond to this thread unless you really want to fix my old newsletter files! 

Met1
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February 7, 2023

Try to copy and paste a whole page into a new doc and see if it goes away.

If not there's some corruption on that page - luckily not enough to screw up your doc but annoying.

If it goes away just repeat for your remaining artboards/pages, at least you won't have to start from scratch.

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February 7, 2023
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