One of my coworkers left Google Docs open with everything selected, so the entire document is pink.
Can I turn off the user cursors/selection highlighting?
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Sign up to join this communityOne of my coworkers left Google Docs open with everything selected, so the entire document is pink.
Can I turn off the user cursors/selection highlighting?
If you switch from Editing
mode to Viewing
mode in a Google Doc, all the cursors (including yours) will disappear. However, you have to switch back to Editing
mode if you want to make changes. There does not appear to be a Viewing
mode for spreadsheets.
(I am unable to view other user's selections. I only see their cursors. Perhaps this feature has changed since May 2015.)
As far as I know, at this time it's not possible.
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