How do I turn on the showing of the cursor position?

[Winginsue]

I just noticed that my cursor position is not showing when I work in illustrator.  I've looked through all the settings and tried to find information on the web but am having problems.  I'm using CS5.5.

Thanks for your help. 

Suzette

[_scott_ · Accepted solution]

Shown in what way?

The cursor position is shown in the Info Panel (Window > Info)

Or if you turn on Smart Guides (View > SmartGuides) You'll see things like anchor positions or distances when drawing, but it's not really the cursor position specifically.

[Winginsue]

Hi Scott,

You are awesome!  It was the view>smartguides.  That was what I needed.  Thank you so much.

[Jacob Bugge]

Suzette,

Are you unable to see where it is on the Artboard/in the Workspace unless you use the buttons? And is the issue only with Illy?

If so, you may try the following (you may have tried/done some of them already) and see whether it helps:

1) Close down Illy and open again;

2) Restart the computer;

3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup;

4) Move the folder with Illy closed;

5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options;

Even more seriously, you may:

6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool, and reinstall.

http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

[Badbarra]

Just for the sake of someone reading this post, I am using Illustrator CC 2014 and if you select the Anchor Point Tool (under the pen tool) the X,Y coordinates will show in the Info viewer (Window > Info) as you move the cursor so it is possible to quickly see any position of any anchor.

[boriaj2014]

That's much simpler and accurate that reading numbers in the ruler. Thanks!