Still getting similar results with this. The cursor goes to wait as letters are added to the document. Then the cursor goes to normal and more letters are added.

I've worked in other programs where I could simply tell the cursor to be what I wanted, and it behaved exactly as expected. I'm not sure how this one in Word is supposed to behave. As in the other programs, if you forgot to tell it to go back to normal, you'd be left with the wait cursor after your script exited. But here it feels like VBA's cursor command is being overwritten by Windows or something.

Which makes me wonder if a better way would be to figure out how to call the Windows cursor command somehow rather than do it inside of Word. Since this one doesn't seem to act right. But this is all new to me, so I know I have much to learn.