| English | German |
| Can't Drop pointer | Ablegen-nicht-möglich-Zeiger (A pointer that indicates that the destination program does not support dragging and dropping a particular object (such as a sticky note, tab or control) to a new location on the screen with the mouse) |
| Click and Type pointer shape | Zeigerform "Klicken und Eingeben" (A visual cue to indicate which formatting will be applied when you double-click: a left-aligned, centered, or right-aligned tab stop; a left indent; or left or right text wrapping) |
| corrupted heap pointer | beschädigter Heapzeiger (An access violation that occurs most typically when a block is allocated in one heap and freed in another) |
| display pointer | Anzeigereferenz (A pointer that marks a position in the markup text of an HTML document during editing in relation to the onscreen position of the rendered page. A display pointer is controlled by an GetDisplayGravity interface. Display pointers work in conjunction with markup pointers) |
| global resource pointer | globaler Ressourcenzeiger (A resource object exposed at the site level that serves to reference a global resource being used by that site) |
| heap pointer | Heapzeiger (An address of a memory location within the locations managed by the system and belonging to a heap. All Win32 and NT level heap interfaces take as first parameter a pointer to the heap where the operation should happen) |
| I-beam pointer | I-Balken-Mauszeiger (A mouse cursor used by many applications, such as word processors, when in text-editing mode. The I-beam cursor indicates sections of the document where text can be inserted, deleted, changed, or moved. The cursor is named for its I shape) |
| Laser Pointer | Laserpointer (A feature that allows the user to superimpose a dot over a presentation and control its position with the mouse. The appearance of the dot is similar to that of a traditional laser pointer, and it is broadcast to all presentation viewers and can be recorded into video (Save to Video)) |
| mouse pointer | Mauszeiger (An on-screen element whose location changes as the user moves the mouse. Depending on the location of the mouse pointer and the operation of the program with which it is working, the area of the screen where the mouse pointer appears serves as the target for an action when the user presses one of the mouse buttons) |
| plus pointer | Pluszeiger (The pointer that appears when you move the pointer to the left edge of a field in a datasheet. When the plus pointer appears, you can click to select the entire field) |
| Pointer tool | Zeigertool (An annotation tool used to point to information on a slide) |
| question-mark pointer | Mauszeiger als Fragezeichen (Use the question-mark pointer to get context-sensitive Help on toolbar buttons, dialog box options, tools in the toolbox, and other parts of the window) |
| touch pointer | Touchzeiger (A tool for accessing right-click menus and targeting small pieces of the interface using touch input) |