Disappearing cursor in Word 2010

I spent the afternoon talking to a microsoft representative who looked at this problem within the document I was having this problem with. He diagnosed the following problem:

"This happens only with this document and its a document specific issue"

A problem was caused by the document having a change in "the word spacing options etc."

This can be caused when retained formatting from an outside source is copied into the existing document whose spacing options are different from those in the original document.

Therefore the solution was:

Copy the entire document into a new, freshly opened, blank document, leaving behind ALL the formatting. DO NOT transfer any of the old formatting to the new document.

After the "text only" is copied into the fresh document the cursor resumes its proper functioning and can always be seen as it should be when using the arrow keys.

Then manually reformat your document the way you want it to be formatted. (Font type, font size, tabs, italics, line spacing, etc...)

Any new text you copy and paste into your document, make sure you paste it as text only without its outside formatting or you run the risk of recorrupting your document and losing your cursor again.

This is the only way to get your cursor back.

For me it was worth it to do, as I am working with the same 300 page document for several hours per day for several months of the year.

I found that the problem with a disappearing cursor (the vertical cursor line that blinks) was completely resolved when I highlighted the ENTIRE document and changed the language to English USA.

There must have been some remnants of other language code in my document left over from previous saves or previous versions of Word. To do this, highlight EVERYTHING in the document(don't leave something out!) Next go to the Review tab on the editing ribbon on the top of the page. Click on the language button (you should get a drop down list) and make sure you reclick on "English USA".

Same problem. after reading a few things here and there, it seemed to be a issue somewhere in some of the formatting. One suggestion was to copy all text, paste AS TEXT into new document, then manually format document. Ugh.

This prompted me to try just saving the document as the older Word 97-2003 (.doc) format then reopen and re-save as current 2010 (.docx). THIS WORKED (for me). Good luck!