Text Jumbled on Left Side of Screen

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ErinM

Using PPT 2002 on WinXP (SP1, Office XP SP-2). If we
rapidly page down (as if you're in a big hurry or had too
much coffee), eventually one of the pages will display
with all the text jumbled on top of itself on the left
side of the screen. If you page up (or page down) wait a
beat and then page back to the original slide, the text is
fine.

This happens in files that were created in PPT 97 but also
ones that are newly created in 2002.

We have a case opened with MS on this, but they cannot
recreate the problem (they did admit that they were using
very fast machines). Our workstations have been rated by
MS as being well within the specs to run Office, and our
video drivers are approved by MS. Their recommendation was
to create a new presentation and insert the slides from
the affected presentation.

Anyone else seeing this issue? Any ideas why it happens or
how to get around it? Thank you!
 
E

Echo S

FWIW, adjusting hardware acceleration has fixed this type of problem in
my office before.
 
B

Bill Foley

I guess my hardware doesn't accelerate as fast as others so I don't ever
have that problem! HA!

--
Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint)
www.pttinc.com
Check out PPT FAQs at: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/
"Success, something you measure when you are through succeeding."

Echo S said:
FWIW, adjusting hardware acceleration has fixed this type of problem in
my office before.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Bill said:
It sounds like you will need to update your video driver or possibly adjust
your hardware acceleration. Check out this page on adjusting hardware
acceleration:

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00129.htm
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
E

ErinM

Thanks for the suggestion on the Hardward Acceleration.
Unfortunately, that does not solve our problem. Will look
at updating our video drives, but it was my understanding
we already had the most current ones.
 

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