If mouse cursor keeps flashing or flickering in Excel, disable Hardware Graphics Acceleration. Here are some other fixes that will help you.

CUSTOMIZE EXCEL’S CURSOR DIRECTION AFTER ENTERING DATA When I was using Excel 2003, I could easily adjust which direction the cursor would move—either to the right or down—after I entered data in a ...

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When I was using Excel 2003, I could easily adjust which direction the cursor would move—either to the right or down—after I entered data in a cell. But Office 2007 doesn’t seem to give me a choice.