Screen refresh loop

[Jose Valdes]

Sometimes MS Word 2003 loops endlessly when displaying referenced graphics
in Print Layout or Print Preview. A refresh of the drawings gets restarted
by a command to repaginate. Before the restarted refresh is complete,
another repagination command restarts it, which goes on forever. At least
that's what I think is happening because it goes so quickly that it is hard
to see what's really going on. When it happens, Word does not allow you to
do anything. Often I kill the loop by placing another window over the
graphic that Word is redrawing. Word calms down because it does not need to
redraw the figure and, I quickly exit Word or switch to Normal view.
Here are some factors that might affect the problem: very large number of
referenced graphics in Word file, graphic files themselves are big, large
number IncludeText fields, and the problem seem aggravated by broken links
and vector drawings in EMF, EMZ, or WPG.
By the way, this problem is really just an annoyance. If no one has ever
seen this weird problem, I'll continue to work around it.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Go to the manufacturer's web site of your video/graphics card and look around
for an updated driver.

Try this:
Control panel, display folder, settings tab, advanced button, troubleshoot tab,
slice the acceleration down a couple of notches. If this cures your issue then
you know your driver needs upgrading.

 

[Jose Valdes]

Thanks! I'll give it a try!

Go to the manufacturer's web site of your video/graphics card and look
around for an updated driver.

Try this:
Control panel, display folder, settings tab, advanced button, troubleshoot
tab, slice the acceleration down a couple of notches. If this cures your
issue then you know your driver needs upgrading.

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