[mso] Word 2007 Cursor Blinks

Hi guys,
 
I have Word 2007 on a Vista machine. 
 
Yesterday, I was copying and pasting some recipes from the web and  inserting 
into a word document. For some reason, there after the cursor starting  
blinking (not the insertion point which always blinks). 
 
The blinking cursor shows either the I-beam alternating with the CPU busy  
icon (a small spinning torus) or the cursor arrow alternating with the CPU busy 
 
icon ... depending upon whether the cursor is within the margins of the text, 
 outside of the margins or in the menu area. It cycles about once a second. 
 
I thought it might be because one of the images that got pasted-in was one  
of those animated GIFS. I deleted all of the images with no change in  behavior.
 
Now the blinking cursor is present whether I open an existing document  or 
just start Word with a blank document. 
 
Microsoft KB941085 lists a couple of reasons for a blinking cursor, none of  
which applies to my situation.
 
I tried renaming normal.dotm ... same results.
 
It is really annoying and distracting. Does anyone have any suggestions I  
might try?
  
,,,,,,,  Larry
Ô¿Ô¬ 
 
P.S., I also  rebooted, ran a virus scan, SpyBot S&D, and Ad-Aware, etc. ... 
still no  joy in Mudville.
 


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