Almost on topic: Cursors

After far too many years, I finally found one of Willy Gates's better kept secrets that has made my life ever so much easier in Ventura, and many other programs, and I no longer curse the cursor.

With the advent of much larger screens, along with eyes getting older every year, I was spending more time finding the cursor(s) in Ventura than entering text or moving frames around.

You can apply much larger and blacker cursor(s)throughout most of Windows, including application programs such as Ventura, Corel Draw, and, even for that matter, MS-Word when sentenced to use the latter.

You will find two items under control panel "Mouse-->mouse properties."

"Pointers" tab.

That is not just a reference list! For each of the generally standard cursors/pointers you can browse to an icon more appropriate for high resolution/larger screens. MUCH heavier I-beam text cursors and pick cursors are available, or of course you can make your own.

and on the

"pointer options" tab

You can select "show location of pointer when I press the control key." The latter, which works only when the cursor is at rest, zeros in on the cursor with an ever shrinking circle when you, duhhh, press the control key.

(Windows XP. I assume similar in other recent versions of Windows).

Setting both has been an enormous help for my 71 year old eyes, in several programs, particularly Ventura.

(You will find this secret in XP under Windows help - cursor, but who looks there?)