If mouse cursor keeps flashing or flickering in Excel, disable Hardware Graphics Acceleration. Here are some other fixes that will help you.

This post will show you how to get rid of White-cross Plus-sign mouse cursor in Excel. You need to check the Editing Options settings.

How to Remove the Cursor in an Excel VBA Textbox. A Visual Basic text box may be used to capture user input in Microsoft Excel. Typically, users type data into spreadsheet cells, but text boxes ...

When I was using Excel 2003, I could easily adjust which direction the cursor would move—either to the right or down—after I entered data in a cell. But Office 2007 doesn’t seem to give me a choice.