Weird display issue in Word

[Tony Writer]

I'm having a weird problem in Word. When I'm in page view and I scroll from
one page to the next, Word often shows the same line repeated over and over
again, almost like an echo, for page after page. Sometimes the problem can
be alleviated by using the page up/down keys rather than scrolling,
sometimes not.

Any idea what could be causing this?

T

 

[Elliott Roper]

I'm having a weird problem in Word. When I'm in page view and I scroll from
one page to the next, Word often shows the same line repeated over and over
again, almost like an echo, for page after page. Sometimes the problem can
be alleviated by using the page up/down keys rather than scrolling,
sometimes not.

Any idea what could be causing this?

Word. It is part of the territory.

It's a bug. I see it fairly frequently in Word v.X
Like you, my workaround is to use page up/down.
I turned the scrollbars off. They are neither use nor ornament.

If your screen is really mixed up, so that page up/down won't fix it,
go into normal view and back to page view.

(Someone will be along in a minute to tell you to work in normal view
all the time)

Oh, and file a bug report. You never know, they might divert somebody
from from adding wonder-bloat. Don't hold your breath.

 

[zoonotics]

It might be your video card and it's compatibility with Word or your
system.

 

[zoonotics]

It might be your video card and it's compatibility with Word or your
system.

 

[Elliott Roper]

It might be your video card and it's compatibility with Word or your
system.

It better not be, or lots of us are in trouble. Bog standard Powerbook
here. Never ever pulls that stunt in anything but Word.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

He's right: It's not the "Video Card", it's actually a display driver
issue. If it worries you enough, changing screen resolution or display
colour depth will often take it away entirely. As will updating the
graphics drivers, although the possibility of finding updated graphics
drivers for Mac video cards is not so good...

You're right: It's a bug that has been around since Word 6 on the PC.

It won't happen in Normal view You can clear it by paging BACK two
pages then coming forward again. That cause Word to flush the "screen
buffer" and re-compute the display for that section of the text.

It's quicker to go BACK than forward, because Word holds one page before and
five after the current page in the buffer, so if you go forward you have to
go a long way to cause it to flush the buffer.

Cheers

It better not be, or lots of us are in trouble. Bog standard Powerbook
here. Never ever pulls that stunt in anything but Word.

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[Tony Writer]

Thanks all. Good to know it's not something peculiar to me.