Size of mouse pointer does not change in share screen

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September 26, 2021
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When I do a PowerPoint presentation in Windows 10 I increased the size of the mouse pointer and the color to a vivid red. When I then share the presentation under zoom, the color remains but the cursor on the screen reverts back to original size. How can I fix this? There doesn't seem to be anything within zoom. Is there something I should do under windows mouse settings?

Bort

Employee

I would recommend using the highlighter option in the annotation tools. This might help keep the cursor more visible in your recordings.

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carroll2

Newcomer

The same thing happens on the Mac. And even if you use the highlighter, it's just really small, barely visible. Is there no way to enlarge it?

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MtnManiacX

Newcomer

I see there has not been an answer to this. It drives me crazy that my students can barely see my cursor when I'm teaching online classes with Zoom. I've increased my cursor size in Windows, but it's still tiny and barely visible to my viewers.

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carroll2

Newcomer

No, no answer. Supposedly the Zoom development are going to try to work on this in a future version. But they wouldn't let me express the desire for the change directly to them -- it had to go through my organization. And my organization's IT people are so overloaded that they just a couple of weeks ago (late January) told me they would mention this at the next meeting they were going to have with the zoom development people, although I brought up the problem in early December. In other words, Zoom has set up a system where they have totally insulated themselves from actual users and are hearing things second hand from IT people who haven't experienced the problem. It's really frustrating.

Bort

Employee

You can send feedback directly to our development team here: https://zoom.us/feed

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JohnEidemiller

Newcomer

I realize this is an older post but I’ve had some luck getting a large mouse in zoom presentations. After you set a large mouse with color, in the same Window where you’ve done that select Additional mouse options on the right side of the screen. This should bring up the old school Mouse Properties window. Click on the Pointrer Options tab and make sure Display pointer trails is checked, I also drag the pointer trail length all the way over to Short then click OK.

Now the last thing to do BEFORE you start your screen share is to make sure to check Optimize for video clip. And hopefully voila!

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SharonFry

Newcomer

Hi John,

I'm with you up until this line:

Now the last thing to do BEFORE you start your screen share is to make sure to check Optimize for video clip. And hopefully voila!

Where is this option? (Or, @ShanuWral, if you can help...?)

Thanks!
-Sharon

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JohnEidemiller

Newcomer

It’s a setting in zoom. Its location may vary based upon the platform you’re using. If you can’t locate it, let me know which platform you’re using and I’ll try to help.