diff --git a/forms/source/inc/services.hxx b/forms/source/inc/services.hxx
index dc5d4c3789d9..446ae2435747 100644
--- a/forms/source/inc/services.hxx
+++ b/forms/source/inc/services.hxx
@@ -206,7 +206,6 @@ namespace frm
     // -----------------------
     // misc
     // -----------------------
-    #define SRV_AWT_POINTER "com.sun.star.awt.Pointer"
     #define SRV_AWT_IMAGEPRODUCER "com.sun.star.awt.ImageProducer"
 
     #define SRV_SDB_ROWSET "com.sun.star.sdb.RowSet"
diff --git a/offapi/UnoApi_offapi.mk b/offapi/UnoApi_offapi.mk
index ed72206f6da9..4b6492d24017 100644
--- a/offapi/UnoApi_offapi.mk
+++ b/offapi/UnoApi_offapi.mk
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ $(eval $(call gb_UnoApi_add_idlfiles_nohdl,offapi,offapi/com/sun/star/awt,\
 	DialogProvider \
 	DialogProvider2 \
 	MenuBar \
+	Pointer \
 	PopupMenu \
 	TabController \
 	Toolkit \
diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/awt/Pointer.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/awt/Pointer.idl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..04e96ddb3769
--- /dev/null
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/awt/Pointer.idl
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_awt_Pointer_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_awt_Pointer_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/awt/XPointer.idl>
+
+
+module com {  module sun {  module star {  module awt {
+
+
+/**
+    @since LibreOffice 4.1
+ */
+service Pointer : XPointer;
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/sd/source/ui/slideshow/slideshowviewimpl.cxx b/sd/source/ui/slideshow/slideshowviewimpl.cxx
index 032345b5491c..5a1cffb12ae7 100644
--- a/sd/source/ui/slideshow/slideshowviewimpl.cxx
+++ b/sd/source/ui/slideshow/slideshowviewimpl.cxx
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include <slideshowimpl.hxx>
 #include <osl/mutex.hxx>
 
+#include <com/sun/star/awt/Pointer.hpp>
 #include <com/sun/star/beans/XPropertySet.hpp>
 
 #include <basegfx/polygon/b2dpolygon.hxx>
@@ -657,9 +658,7 @@ void SlideShowView::init()
     Reference< lang::XMultiServiceFactory > xFactory( ::comphelper::getProcessServiceFactory(),
                                                             uno::UNO_QUERY_THROW );
 
-    if( xFactory.is() )
-        mxPointer.set( xFactory->createInstance( "com.sun.star.awt.Pointer" ),
-                        uno::UNO_QUERY );
+    mxPointer = awt::Pointer::create( ::comphelper::getProcessComponentContext() );
 
     getTransformation();
 
diff --git a/sdext/source/presenter/PresenterPaneBorderManager.cxx b/sdext/source/presenter/PresenterPaneBorderManager.cxx
index 5cb992a6d1de..0e63720c040a 100644
--- a/sdext/source/presenter/PresenterPaneBorderManager.cxx
+++ b/sdext/source/presenter/PresenterPaneBorderManager.cxx
@@ -83,11 +83,7 @@ PresenterPaneBorderManager::PresenterPaneBorderManager (
     Reference<lang::XMultiComponentFactory> xFactory (rxContext->getServiceManager());
     if (xFactory.is())
     {
-        mxPointer = Reference<awt::XPointer>(
-            xFactory->createInstanceWithContext(
-                OUString("com.sun.star.awt.Pointer"),
-                rxContext),
-            UNO_QUERY_THROW);
+        mxPointer = awt::Pointer::create(rxContext);
 
         mxPresenterHelper = Reference<drawing::XPresenterHelper>(
             xFactory->createInstanceWithContext(
diff --git a/sdext/source/presenter/PresenterSlideShowView.cxx b/sdext/source/presenter/PresenterSlideShowView.cxx
index 34457f18d9d8..1a663fcf036a 100644
--- a/sdext/source/presenter/PresenterSlideShowView.cxx
+++ b/sdext/source/presenter/PresenterSlideShowView.cxx
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include "PresenterPaneContainer.hxx"
 #include <com/sun/star/awt/InvalidateStyle.hpp>
 #include <com/sun/star/awt/PosSize.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/awt/Pointer.hpp>
 #include <com/sun/star/awt/Toolkit.hpp>
 #include <com/sun/star/awt/WindowAttribute.hpp>
 #include <com/sun/star/awt/XWindow.hpp>
@@ -465,12 +466,7 @@ void SAL_CALL PresenterSlideShowView::setMouseCursor(::sal_Int16 nPointerShape)
     // Create a pointer when it does not yet exist.
     if ( ! mxPointer.is())
     {
-        Reference<lang::XMultiServiceFactory> xFactory (
-            mxComponentContext, UNO_QUERY);
-        if (xFactory.is())
-            mxPointer = Reference<awt::XPointer>(
-                xFactory->createInstance(OUString("com.sun.star.awt.Pointer")),
-                UNO_QUERY);
+        mxPointer = awt::Pointer::create(mxComponentContext);
     }
 
     // Set the pointer to the given shape and the window(peer) to the