Funny on-screen font behaviour

[Paul Harper-Scott]

I'm running Word XP on Windows XP, and the fonts on display in Word look
fatter and clunkier than they used to when I was running Windows ME. If
I start to edit a sentence on the screen, that whole sentence will
re-style the font so that it looks as slender and graceful as it used to
on ME, but as soon as the screen refreshes (if I go down them back up
the document, for instance), the fonts become plump again. I've
experimented with the font smoothing settings in Windows XP, but nothing
seems to have an effect on Word. Any idea what might be happening?

 

[TF]

Paul

If you are in Normal View, you may have selected Draft Fonts under Tools,
Options, View tab.

Otherwise you may need to update either your Graphics driver and/or printer
driver.



: I'm running Word XP on Windows XP, and the fonts on display in Word look
: fatter and clunkier than they used to when I was running Windows ME. If
: I start to edit a sentence on the screen, that whole sentence will
: re-style the font so that it looks as slender and graceful as it used to
: on ME, but as soon as the screen refreshes (if I go down them back up
: the document, for instance), the fonts become plump again. I've
: experimented with the font smoothing settings in Windows XP, but nothing
: seems to have an effect on Word. Any idea what might be happening?

 

[Paul Harper-Scott]

Thanks: updating the graphics driver did it.

 

[sf]

Thanks: updating the graphics driver did it.

XP? Weird. What did you do to need a new graphics driver?


Practice safe eating - always use condiments

 

[TF]

Can't you see all the messages in the thread?



: On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 01:01:48 +0000, Paul Harper-Scott
:
: > Thanks: updating the graphics driver did it.
: >
: XP? Weird. What did you do to need a new graphics driver?
:
:
: Practice safe eating - always use condiments