Word X errors on Tiger 10.6.2

[apelsinen]

Hi

When i try to scroll down on a page the lines start repeating
themselves. If i save the document it returns to an ok state (most of
the time) but again when i try to scroll lines start repeating.

This issue is really annoying and makes using word almost impossible. I
dont know if its a word x issue or if this issue has something to do
with office and mac.

anyway, any help is appeciated

i can provide a screendump if requested.

 

[Elliott Roper]

Hi

When i try to scroll down on a page the lines start repeating
themselves. If i save the document it returns to an ok state (most of
the time) but again when i try to scroll lines start repeating.

This issue is really annoying and makes using word almost impossible. I
dont know if its a word x issue or if this issue has something to do
with office and mac.

anyway, any help is appeciated

i can provide a screendump if requested.

It is a fairly famous bug that quite a few of us have seen.
Workaround: use the page-up keys to go back one or two pages till it
clears up, and then as many page downs as you need to get back to where
you were.

It never bothers me any more, because I gave up using the scroll bars.
Apart from page up and page down, cmd-up walks back by paragraph,
cmd-opt-left walks back by sentence (very useful that). It is easy to
guess how to move in the opposite direction.

Eschewing the scroll bars does not avoid everything in the repeated
lines department. Sometimes I see (in Word X and 2004) a line or two
that appears 'torn' - a horizontal strip of one or more pixels that
have been horribly displaced. Working in page view and view page width
mode, the workaround is to slightly change the size of the window with
a drag on the bottom right corner. Ping! it all comes good. It should
work in normal view with pagewidth mode too - anything to get Word to
redraw the display without encouraging it to use whatever buggy caching
kluge it is using to 'help' redraw you screen quickly.