T61p, Word 2013 and blinking cursor

I have been running Windows 7 Ultimate and Office 2010 Pro Plus on my T61p 6457 and all was working well, until I uninstalled Office 2010, and installed Office 2013 Pro Plus, and ran Lenovo System Update to check all the latest drivers were installed.
When I open up Word 2013 - the cursor continuously blinks - I checked setting under control panel/keyboard properties and mouse driver (16.0.2).
How do I remove the blinking cursor please?

We're seeing the exact same thing on pretty much all our Office 2013 upgraded customer environments.
We are a large hosted desktop provider, using mostly Citrix. However, tests revealed that this is also showing when just connecting through RDP, which pretty much rules out Citrix as a culprit.
All these environments use VMware as Hypervisor for the Citrix servers, but all are a different version and/or patchlevel, ranging from ESX4.1 all the way to ESX5.5.
At the moment we haven't upgraded to SP1. As mentioned earlier it did not help. We're planning to upgrade anyway, just to double check if the problem is fixed with any of the undocumented fixes that are coming with the SP1 upgrade.
In terms of end-users i'd say that we have approximately 2500 users affected by this issue.
A call will be placed with Microsoft Tech Support to have this investigated further in the coming week(s) after we've gathered all relevant information and data.
We'll also be setting up a lab environment to help us resolve this issue together with Microsoft.
FYI: Using 16bit color graphics forced by the Citrix Published Desktop did not resolve the issue. The cursor is still stuck. Unable to test using native RDP at this moment.
Any help from Microsoft representatives is greatly appreciated.
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