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Thanks for asking, PK, I’ve looked at Excel, Word, and Settings accessibility, I can’t see anything except I used the Settings accessibility/mouse settings to reduce the size of the mouse cursor so the white cross would fit in the cells of my spreadsheets!

I still don’t know how it got to where it was, but thanks to everyone I have it back to where it was more or less. There were two issues – somehow the cross was very large, and I couldn’t drag and drop cells – I blamed that on the size of the cross.

Two overcome the cross size issue, I had to shrink my Windows cursor down 2 clicks, but with that the cross now fits inside a cell on my spreadsheets, although it now looks a bit puny on my computer screens…  But I still couldn’t drag and drop cells. Reading up I found File/Options/Advanced/Editing Options/Enable fill handle and cell drag and drop was unchecked, so checked that, and I now have the little dot in the lower right corner of a cell when I click on it.

I’m not the most observant person, and I did think the “general select” in a worksheet was a arrow, not a little white cross…which certainly complicated the searching for answers. But I am sure I never unchecked the fill handle option or bumped up the windows cursor size, so some glitch occurred.

Again, thanks to everyone. The macro I posted does turn the general select into an arrow, but the better approach is to find a way to get the cross back into a cell – by shrinking the windows cursor size or increasing the zoom level of the spreadsheet – and checking the fill handle option if the little dot isn’t showing when you click on a cell.

 

 

 

Nope, not in extended mode, can turn that on and off, makes no difference. Thanks for the followup – Semper Fi!

Just as a follow-up, I got the wired mouse. Booted the computer without either of the Logi mouses, opened an Excel spreadsheet and there was the white cross. So I went to device manager and deleted all the mouse entries except for the wired mouse – including deleting the Logitech  HID-Compliant Unifying Mouse. Rebooted with the wired mouse, opened an excel spreadsheet and again, the white cross. Went to device manager, and all the entries I deleted were back.

So I deleted them all again, but this time uninstalled the Logitech Options Plus software, which had been updated when I received the new Logitech MX Vertical mouse, about 10 days before all of this started. Rebooted, and it was all the same, white cross and all the device manager entries back.

SOooooo, that’s where it is. I hope if anyone else has this problem the macro above helps, and maybe one day there will be an update of Excel or Logi and all of a sudden all will be well. If not, well, opening a spreadsheet with a macro, closing it and then going to work is not the worse thing in the world. Thanks Paul, Susan and Old Navy Man (I’m an old Marine Corps Man, older than you I expect!) Do appreciate your interest and help.

 

Susan, Logi Vertical Mice are difficult to change the battery – but I have two of them, one bought this year, once about 2 years old, and I use them on a PC and a laptop – neither one has exhibited any power issues, they work for months between re-charges. Both of them have the same issue with the white cursor in Excel.

OldNavyGuy, I did the repair of my MS office suite, white cross is still there!

I will buy a wired mouse, always good to have a backup anyway, and see what happens with that.

 

Mouse is wireless, bluetooth connection. Thanks for asking.

Thanks, Paul, I read it, and I do believe it has something to do with the interaction of the mouse and Excel, but I’ve got two mice, albeit both Logi Verticals, and it does it on both of them. I reset the mouse to default, but that didn’t do anything. So onward and upward…

On my system it’s settings/multitasking/snap windows – Off. Thanks for getting me there, PKCano!

I went to Ublock/settings and there it was, thank you deuce120. The format is a bit different than what you have… ghacks.net##.hentry,.home-posts,.home-category-post:not(:has-text(/Martin Brinkmann|Ashwin/))  So now I know where it is, have it written in my computer diary, and should be able to find it if I need to change it.

IMHO, which is all it is, vendors of tech and other products/services don’t want you to understand what you are doing, they just want you to do what they say. Ignorant consumers are easier to up-sell and less likely to change vendors because they don’t understand – much like a lot of the medical profession…

I ran SUMo and it found about 25 updates, 4 major. I ran Patch My PC, it found 5 and only recognized 20 programs on my PC, where SUMo checked over 100. I also ran  UCheck, it found 4 programs and only about 20 checked. Not good. Did update SUMo, hope they sell it to someone who will keep it going.

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Well, it isn’t currently resolved, but evidently it will be in some future release. That’s good enough for me, my whole system is a bit rocky these days, don’t want to make anything worse. Thanks, everyone, for all your input and thoughts/ideas.

Ah, it’s getting late. I have Win11 22H2. I went to Control Panel, but have no Notification Area in small icons or in category, nor do I have an entry for System Icons anywhere that I can find.

On the plus side, I did ran Group Policy as Administrator, User Configuration>Administrative Templates>Start Menu and Taskbar, and I clicked on the listing for Start Menu and Taskbar which brought up not only a listing for a folder labeled “Notifications” but also a whole slew of individual policy listings affecting both the Taskbar and the Start Menu. A little over half way down this long list is a policy setting called “Remove Clock from the system notification area”.

Found it! Enabled it! Rebooted! date/time remains on the taskbar. Drat.

Ran Group Policy again, and it says Remove Clock is enabled. Drat.

Do really appreciate the input, folks. Hitting the rack.

 

Thanks, Susan, but there is no setting on my version of things that has a “Hide time and date in the system tray”, at least not that I can find. Not in time and language/date and time, and you can see below I searched for a setting “hide time” and that came up no results for hide time. I do have Start11 installed, Winaero Tweaker, but I can’t find anything in either of those that addesses taskbar date and time display.