changing pointers

[Corticus]

Simple, non-important but would-be useful information-

Can you change the default mouse icon in Excel?
(yes I checked the manual)

That's it,
Corticus

 

[Asala42]

G'day,

I don't know of a standard way to do this with excel, but the windows method would be to go to start/settings/control panel/mouse/pointers.

Hope that helps somewhat
Adam

 

[Corticus]

I actually wanted to change the cross looking thing in Excel , not Windows.

Corticus

 

[Mark O'Brien]

Corticus

I don't believe you can change the cross icon. Bit of a pain, I've spent a lot of time in the past on XL97 and 2000 trying to do this.

 

[Legacy 98055]

Hi Corticus.
Without messing around with the Windows API you only get four choices within Excel.<pre>

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Application.Cursor = xlNorthwestArrow
'or
Application.Cursor = xlDefault
'or
Application.Cursor = xlWait
'or
Application.Cursor = xlIBeam
End Sub</pre>

If you want to go the API route, you can use any valid cursor on your sys...

Tom
This message was edited by TsTom on 2002-05-13 09:22

 

[Corticus]

thanks!!

I used:

Sub Autpen()
Application.Cursor = xlNorthwestArrow
End Sub

worked perfect, sub workbook_open() didn't work, though

you just solved something my boss has been nagging me about since we started(almost a year ago)converted all of our Quttro Pro 9 files to Excel...
This board rocks!

-Corticus