Outlook 2007 - how to disable the Hand cursor

12 September, 2008 at 4:44 pm by Phil Wiffen · Filed under General IT, Troubleshooting

How to disable or turn off the Panning Hand cursor in Outlook 2007

If you’re using Outlook 2007 and you have a mysterious “Panning hand” cursor that won’t let you select text in an email, and want to turn it off, but can’t find the option, here’s how:

Click the Customize Quick Access Toolbar pull down:
Choose “More Commands…”
In the next window, click the drop down box and choose “Commands not in the Ribbon”
Scroll down until you find “Panning Hand” and then click “Add >>”
Click OK.
The Hand will now appear in the toolbar.
Click the Hand to disable Panning Hand
You can now select/copy/highlight text

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Chris said,

23 October, 2008 at 7:45 pm

Thank you so much - this has been driving me nuts!
Max said,

7 November, 2008 at 11:50 pm

Many thanks!

Any idea how it gets enabled in the first place (shortcut key, maybe)?

(I don’t have a Quick Access Toolbar, nor any way to enable it, and I can’t find any mention of a “panning hand” in the Help file.)
Phil Wiffen said,

8 November, 2008 at 9:17 am

Hey Max,

I wish I knew - it’d certainly be easier to undo!

(This mysteriously got enabled on a co-worker’s laptop and I was just asked to fix it)