That's a "feature".
Draft is a special view designed to maximise computing efficiency. It has
many purposes, but its major purpose is to work on big documents (over 200
pages) and to make editing easier by showing you more of what is going on.
Among its power-saving tricks is that it does not bother to redraw parts of
the screen that may not contain useful information. Since it's not going to
update these parts of the screen, it tries to avoid doing the calculations
needed to work out what would be on them.
So if you do something like scroll into an area where Word hasn't worked out
what should be on the screen, it will draw only what it knows about. Just
carry on: when you make a change to the text that forces that area of the
document to change, Word will do the sums then.
Draft View uses about 10,000 times less battery power than Print Layout
View, and Print Preview uses more than 10,000 times more power than Print
Layout. Proofing a large document in Print Preview, get used to a
background of wailing cooling fans
Cheers
In Draft View of Word 2008, when I use the horizontal scrollbar or that
feature on the mouse/keypad, I will end up with repeats of the left hand
style column; 3, 4, 5 of them. I switch to another View and return and
all is well with the "style" column showing.
Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug or something else?
Thanks.
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