>Hi Bruce,
> I've had opportunity to do some experimenting with changing the cursor shape and I think I must be missing something. I successfully change to I-beam cursor shape to the arrow pointer, but I am not able to change it back.

This also changed your I-beam cursor to Arrow, isn't it?

> I ran Vlad's code and it also did not change the I-beam cursor back to an I-beam. Have you gotten this to work and am I missing something?

This is due to a Windows NT bug related to LoadCursor() function. Please see my new "How to change and how to reset mouse cursors (pointers)" FAQ in the KB here on UT.

Vlad