visual tears when scrolling in draft view?

Has anyone been having problems with the screen getting out of synch
with the scrolling?

I've noticed this within my first few minutes of using Word2008.
When scrolling with the mouse scroll wheel while in draft view with
zoom set to 150%, I've been seeing visual tears in the window as the
display gets messed up.
If I'm scrolling rapidly, sometimes I'll see a part of the document
appear at both the top and bottom part of the window. I seem to
recall similar problems in early versions of Word X (or was it 2004?)

an example screen shot is at:
http://tina.stanford.edu/~hills/Office2008/word2008_scrolling_glitch.png

(Office 2008, MacOSX 10.4.10 on macbook pro; Office X and 2004 both
still installed)

Yes, that affects a few people, depending on their graphics hardware and how
busy the computer is at the time.

You will find you can clear it by paging "back" a couple of screenfuls, then
forward (to force the computer to have another try at drawing the screen).

I am sure there will be a patch for this sometime. In the meantime, you may
wish to explore alternative ways to navigate in long documents.

For example: dragging the thumb in the scroll bar, enabling the Navigation
Pane in the View menu, or for really long documents, flipping into Outline
View.

Hope this helps


On 28/01/08 2:24 AM, in article
85fc2003-5571-4ae1-8f9c-cb6227a43264.TakeThisOut@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com,
"mdhills@gmail.com" <mdhills.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone been having problems with the screen getting out of synch
> with the scrolling?
>
> I've noticed this within my first few minutes of using Word2008.
> When scrolling with the mouse scroll wheel while in draft view with
> zoom set to 150%, I've been seeing visual tears in the window as the
> display gets messed up.
> If I'm scrolling rapidly, sometimes I'll see a part of the document
> appear at both the top and bottom part of the window. I seem to
> recall similar problems in early versions of Word X (or was it 2004?)
>
> an example screen shot is at:
> http://tina.stanford.edu/~hills/Office2008/word2008_scrolling_glitch.png
>
> (Office 2008, MacOSX 10.4.10 on macbook pro; Office X and 2004 both
> still installed)

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