Comments on: Outlook 2007 – how to disable the Hand cursor

By: D H

D H — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:07:46 +0000

Sport on and Fantastic, thank you very much.
Easy when you know how. Why do MS do this weird stuff?

By: aubrey

aubrey — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:08:06 +0000

Thanks much. This has been a real thorn in my side.
You solved the issue and stress.

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:04:26 +0000

Thanks a million!!!!!!!!!

It is so clear and easy. I am so glad to found this help!

Good Job

By: Lam Nguyen

Lam Nguyen — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:57:11 +0000

Great!

Thanks so much for your instruction!

Cheers!
N.T.Lam

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:00:19 +0000

GOOD GRIEF, Thanks for figuring this out!

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:46:11 +0000

Thank you!

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:35:24 +0000

Thank you SO much! This has been driving me absolutely crazy! Maybe I’ll get my sanity back now !

By: Rod

Rod — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:43:40 +0000

Thanks much! I am very curious how, after years of using Outlook, and about 18 months in Vista, all of a sudden this happened. What caused the problem to which your solution was clearly they answer?

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:00:29 +0000

Thanks so much, Phil! Glad I Googled this problem and came up with your answer. This appeared when a friend of mine was using my computer, and I’ve suffered with it for weeks. Now that I know how to fix it, I ought to enable the Panning Hand when he uses my computer again just to annoy him…”Well, it doesn’t happen when I use the computer”…blah, blah, blah! Thanks again! P.S. I’ve added your site to my Favorites as I’m sure I’ll be back.

By: Blake Schreck

Blake Schreck — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:52:27 +0000

Thanks so much…its been driving me cazy. (or more crazy)

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:32:38 +0000

I’ll chime in with the ‘driving me nuts’ comments. Infuriating that MS had this absurdly disabling option (who the heck DOESN’T want to select text in an email every once in while?) so non-intuitively able to turn off once it gets turned on somehow (me, too, not knowing how ti got turned on months ago.. every time I would try to select text, I’d be infuriated, but would just manually copy the data. Only reason I Googled it now was because I had to copy a very complex code out of the email).

Thanks! You link was the top link for Google when I entered in the search terms:

“Microsoft Outlook 2007 get rid of hand”

By: Ayeshna

Ayeshna — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:24:46 +0000

Great – worked straightaway. I’ve spent ages trying to figure out why it suddenly started in the first place! – still clueless.

Thanks for your tip!

By: susan

susan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:53:13 +0000

THANKYOU!!!
YOU ARE BRILLIANT!!!

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:30:22 +0000

It worked!!! Thank you!

By: Dan B

Dan B — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:25:17 +0000

Ok I did and it did not work. I also cannot find it on the scroll bar
Someone at microsoft needs fired

help help

By: Zoe DJ

Zoe DJ — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:07:38 +0000

Phil you are genious!! After months of frustration and forwarding emails to my private e-mail just to be able to copy and paste important text … argghh!

This problem (not to mention finding the right words to describe the problem to find an answer) is finally, amazingly gone!!

Thanks to everyone else too for discovering and pointing out where the problem started … if only I’d have thought about looking around my screen for the pesky little hand icon to be able to get rid of it!!

One thousand thanks Zoe DJ

By: Don Brunder

Don Brunder — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:51:25 +0000

This article got me started on solving this pesky problem. In my Outlook 2007 there is a “Turn on/off Panning Hand” icon (a hand of course) at the top right of the preview and reading text panes.

By: Mary Travers

Mary Travers — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:24:48 +0000

Very helpful, I’m so glad it could be sorted. Many thanks

By: DJ

DJ — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:04:07 +0000

Perfect. Thank you

By: Murali

Murali — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:51:07 +0000

Thanks a lot. It was driving me crazy as well.