# Linked Static Text - No Pointer Finger?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linked-static-text-no-pointer-finger/183978>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 31, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linked-static-text-no-pointer-finger/183978 "2006-03-31T17:33:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![joshmpratt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@joshmpratt](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/joshmpratt)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linked-static-text-no-pointer-finger/183978/1 "2006-03-31T17:33:49Z")

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I’ve got a bunch of text in some of my pages, and there are parts of the text that I have linked. On the web, the text just looks normal, which is fine, but when I put the mouse over it, the finger pointer doesn’t come up, so no one would guess it’s actually a link if they didn’t know. It still works if you click on it, but why doesn’t the mouse turn into the finger pointer?

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**Author:** ![JoshuaJonah](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/joshuajonah/32/1775_2.png) [@JoshuaJonah](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JoshuaJonah)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linked-static-text-no-pointer-finger/183978/2 "2006-03-31T17:43:31Z")

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well, dunno. It’s only gonna show the hand cursor if it’s a button. You can manually turn the hand cursor on and off with:

```auto
useHandCursor = 0 //or 1

```

If it’s static, you could just slap a botton over top of the text that looks the same. Quick and dirty but it would work.