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Changing the Cursor Appearance

My cursor used to be a single line that allowed me to enter characters anywhere but now it is a blinking square that moves from character to character. Does anyone know how to change that?

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  • Anonymous Apr 14, 2009

    yeah man, same here



  • Anonymous Apr 29, 2009

    Thank you sooo much!!! that helped a ton

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    theone_23 Jun 12, 2013

    You have no idea how irritating this was! Thank you so much!

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I had this same problem on my TI 89... You must have accidentally set your calculator to insert mode. To switch it back to the thin cursor, input the following keystrokes... Go to the "2nd" key to enter second function mode. Then press the button with an arrow on it pointing to the left(The key that you use to backspace). Do you see the "INS" lettering above the backspace key? There's your solution :-)

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  • keivan79us Jan 13, 2011

    Thanks so much adriel867

  • jovelnom Feb 24, 2011

    Thanks man, my problem is solved now...Thanks X1 000 000 000 000

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    hanif Mar 18, 2015

    Please more detail on this problem, I couldn't resolve mine! Thanks :)

  • hanif
    hanif Mar 18, 2015

    thanks, I found it too :) Used over a week to this ***, finally found your comment. Thanks alot :)

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