Yeah, it's a "performance limitation".
Word has had this bug for about 20 years: it's a result of the "Lazy
Repagination" mechanism being a little too lazy in Outline View.
Word runs the repagination engine (which lays the text out on the screen)
only when it needs to, to get rid of the annoying pauses that would
otherwise occur.
Earlier versions of Word ran the pagination engine more frequently, which
made working on medium-sized document (over 100 pages) very frustrating,
because every time you made a change, Word would pause to repaginate and you
couldn't see anything you typed while it was doing that.
Since about Word 2001, they throttled it back a bit. Now the pagination
pauses rarely get in your way. But in Outline View, the pagination engine
sometimes does not run often enough and the screen redraw gets corrupted.
Use "Send Feedback" from Word's Help menu to report the bug. If they get
enough complaints, they will add it to the list of things to be fixed in the
next version.
Hope this helps
Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel I
work in Outline view quite a bit when drafting documents. In Word 2008 12.2.3
(091001) running on a MacBook Pro 13" Unibody with 10.5.8, if I scroll up and
down through a document in Outline view, the symbols on the left that denote
paragraphs and subheaders end up not redrawing correctly. Occasionally, text
will also overlap itself and Ive also seen behavior where it appears that Word
this my cursor focus is actually several lines up from where the appearance of
the pointer or cursor is on the screen.
The way I fix this is by minimizing the document to the Dock, then pulling it
back up, but this eliminates the advantage of working in Outline view.
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