Cursor Property

Applies To

Application object.

Description

Returns or sets the appearance of the mouse pointer in Microsoft Excel. Read/write Long.

Can be one of the following XlMousePointer constants.

Constant	Description

xlDefault	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 pointer to xlDefault before your macro stops running.

Example

This example changes the mouse pointer to an I-beam, pauses, and then changes it 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 = xlDefault
End Sub