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Hello Experts!
Although I use the VS Designer on a daily basis, I've yet to figure the select the various mouse pointer types, which change at seemingly random times. My problem is that when a Plus sign appears next to the pointer, it stops selecting elements, and starts splitting/adding columns in the grid behind the elements. I then have to go back to the code editor and remove the additional grid columns that I have created unintentionally. Can someone please advise how to disable this feature, so as to have the mouse pointer do no actions other than select elements? Thanks so much!
Joe
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Hello Joe, welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum. There isn’t any changeable setting for mouse pointer types in Visual Studio, but focus on your issue, looks a little strange, could you please share us more details, such as your project type, operations that you performed, some configurations you set, some screenshots and reproducible steps?