Cursor Property

Applies To

Application Object.

Description

Returns or sets the appearance of the mouse pointer in Microsoft Excel, as listed in the following table. This property is available only in Microsoft Excel for Windows 95. Read-write.

Value	Meaning

xlNormal	The default pointer
xlWait	The hourglass pointer
xlNorthwestArrow	The northwest-arrow pointer
xlIBeam	The I-beam pointer

Remarks

The Cursor property isn't reset automatically when the macro stops running. You should reset the mouse pointer to xlNormal before your macro stops.

Example

This example changes the mouse pointer to an I-beam, pauses, and then changes the pointer to the default pointer.

Sub ChangeCursor()
    Application.Cursor = xlIBeam
    For x = 1 To 1000
        For y = 1 to 1000
        Next y
    Next x
    Application.Cursor = xlNormal
End Sub