The arrow pointer is replaced by the hand tool - NOT by the link pointer 'Mickey Mouse glove'. I might add that in Safari, the problem also happens. The advice given to that person was to remove the Adobe Internet plug-ins, but I can't find any in Library>Internet plug-ins, and also to submit a bug feedback report to Apple (I have done that). I searched this forum some months ago to see if anyone had a similar problem, and I did find someone with exactly the same problem, but I can't find it now. There is clearly some problem of 'interference' from Adobe Reader into my Pages programme - why I am I seeing icons from Adobe Reader (the hand tool and the cross-hairs) in Pages, icons that replace the arrow pointer, and how can I stop this - that's what I want to know! I might add that sometimes when I go into Adobe, this hand icon flickers very rapidly for maybe 20 seconds before it stabilises, which again indicates to me that there is some problem with it. There will be no problem, but then suddenly the problem will recur - in a Pages document with text only, no images.īy the way, the cross-hairs that appear sometimes (very seldom compared to the hand), also instead of the pointer arrow, are also the cross-hairs that I know from Adobe, not the ones that I know from Apple. It is an intermittent problem it comes and goes. If I want to select something from a drop-down menu, sometimes I will get the hand again ( NOT the 'Mickey Mouse glove') instead of the pointer arrow. Sometimes it repeatedly changes between the arrow and the hand WHEN I ONLY HAVE TEXT ON THE PAGE - it has got nothing to do with hovering over images and shapes. But then if I later open Adobe Reader, and read a pdf for example, when I go back to Pages, sometimes - not always - the mouse arrow will change into the Adobe Hand Tool. I know that that's what it is because if I switch my Mac on in the morning to work on it, and I open Pages, and Adobe Reader is NOT open, I have no trouble and the mouse arrow pointer appears as it should. See bottom right corner in the pic below. It is a normal Adobe icon one sees all the time when one is using Adobe. This as I said, is the 'Hand Tool' that I get on the screen when I read a pdf in Adobe Reader. What my problem is, is that sometimes when I am working in Pages (even when it is a text-only document with no images), the mouse/trackpad pointer arrow, i.e.

it is NOT this icon that is causing me the trouble: Thank you for your attempt to help me, but I'm wondering if you read my post carefully enough because I said it is not the 'baseball mitt' (I've also seen it described as a 'Mickey Mouse glove') grab cursor/link pointer that is giving me problems, i.e.

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