Why does the cursor have a white square beside it?

I use adobe professional to edit powerpoint slideshows that have been converted to pdfs. On certain slides some strange things happen. The cursor appears with a tiny white square to the right side of it, I cannot click on images, using the edit text and images function, and I can start a text box, but the text that I type is invisible. The application also often crashes on these slides (though I find Adobe Pro to crash ridiculously often anyway). I tried to take a screenshot but the cursor wouldn't show up.
I would like to figure out how to make these pages editable so that I can make notes on them.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi Rebecca,
Can you please share the file with me so that I can have a look. You can email me at [email protected]
I tried converting a pptx file to pdf and when I try to edit I am unable to view any such square box.
What version of PowerPoint and Acrobat are you using? Have you tried updating Acrobat to the latest patch and checked?
Is the issue replicable on other files as well or specific to this file?
Regards,
Rave

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