Pointer disappears in Word for Mac

I upgraded recently to Office for Mac 2011, and a problem which I'd had in Office 2008 re-appeared. I remember fixing this in Word 2008 for Mac, but can't remember how I did it.
Basically, what happens in Word for Mac 2011 is that every time I press the left or right arrow key in a document to scroll through the text, or to get to a specific word or point in the sentence which I want to edit, the pointer/cursor disappears. I'm talking about the vertical line which shows the location in the document.
You will appreciate that this is extremely frustrating, since I have no way of knowing where exactly I've reached. Only when I lift my finger off the left or right arrow key, does the line reappear and I know where I am. This is slowing me down to no end, and I'm finding editing documents very very tedious.
Please help!
Thanks so much.

I upgraded recently to Office for Mac 2011, and a problem which I'd had in Office 2008 re-appeared. I remember fixing this in Word 2008 for Mac, but can't remember how I did it.
Basically, what happens in Word for Mac 2011 is that every time I press the left or right arrow key in a document to scroll through the text, or to get to a specific word or point in the sentence which I want to edit, the pointer/cursor disappears. I'm talking about the vertical line which shows the location in the document.
You will appreciate that this is extremely frustrating, since I have no way of knowing where exactly I've reached. Only when I lift my finger off the left or right arrow key, does the line reappear and I know where I am. This is slowing me down to no end, and I'm finding editing documents very very tedious.
Please help!
Thanks so much.

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