How to change the cursor icon to the hand on Word

Panning Hand icons in Word or Office tools that were available from Office 2010 before, but later in Office 2013, the hand icons are no longer used and hidden. This hand icon feature is no different from the current mouse pointer in Word and the scrollbar in the interface. This hand icon is useful when you browse documents in Word when you can rotate the page in all directions, even when you move the hand icon diagonally, the Word page is scrolled up or down. The following article will guide you to change the mouse cursor to the hand icon in Word.

Instructions for displaying a hand icon in Word

Step 1:

At Word interface, click on the drop down arrow icon and select More Commands in the displayed list.

Step 2:

Switch to the new interface, users look down to Choose commands from, select Commands Not In The Ribbon in the drop down list.

Then look down below we find the Panning Hand tool and click Add to add the Quick access toolbar.

Step 3:

Return to the Word interface, we will see the hand icon displayed. Click the icon to switch to hand icon. To return to the old mouse pointer icon, press the hand icon again or press the Esc key.

To use, click and hold the left mouse button and then move the icon to any position to scroll up and down the Word interface.

Note the hand icon is only available on Word, OneNote and Outlook.