Double black arrows as the mouse cursor

I changed the batteries on my wireless mouse and now my cursor has changed to a black arrow with two ends. I can move it arrow the screen but it doesn't do anything when I click it.  Is not not able to click makes it more difficult to turn on for me, because I don't know very many shortcuts to access the Panel of control etc.

any help would be appreciated

Thank you

Hey Saenz1948,

I understand that you have a problem with the cursor shows something different from what you are accustomed. I can try to help you.

Now say you that's not click on anything in its use. I would recommend that you look in your Mac restarts. I know that you don't know a lot of shortcuts for your Mac, but everything you would need to press East of command-control-button / stop. These same keys together will close the application and restart your Mac. Once you have restarted your Mac, you should see that the cursor is returned to normal.

Take a look at the articles below. The first might exceed the different sliders, you might see and the other might exceed the shortcuts that you can use for your Mac.

OS X El Capitan: pointers in OS X
https://support.Apple.com/kb/PH21878

Mac keyboard shortcuts
https://support.Apple.com/en-us/HT201236

Take it easy

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