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Strange new flickering screen
First don't tell me there's something wrong with my hardware. I've
thoroughly checked out my screen. Recently Word is acting strange: as I approach the end of a page, the screen begins to flicker with each keystroke. Now, as soon as the text goes to the next page, the flickering stops. It doesn't start again until I'm about 5 lines from the bottom of the page! This is a new phenomenon. I can't think of any setting I've changed that would make this happen. I'm using Word 2000 on a laptop. This doesn't happen with any other program. Anybody ever seen this or have any suggestions? Thanks, Clif |
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I'd hazard a guess that this is caused by having more paragraphs than is
healthy marked as "keep with next" or some other complex pagination rule. The flickering often indicates Word is finding it very hard to work out the screen display, and if it happens near the end of the page that's probably deciding what to push over onto the next page. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org wrote in message oups.com... First don't tell me there's something wrong with my hardware. I've thoroughly checked out my screen. Recently Word is acting strange: as I approach the end of a page, the screen begins to flicker with each keystroke. Now, as soon as the text goes to the next page, the flickering stops. It doesn't start again until I'm about 5 lines from the bottom of the page! This is a new phenomenon. I can't think of any setting I've changed that would make this happen. I'm using Word 2000 on a laptop. This doesn't happen with any other program. Anybody ever seen this or have any suggestions? Thanks, Clif |
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Looks like your right. I started the next page of the manuscript as a new
document, and the flickering went away. But what can I do to eliminate it. This document was about 60 pages long. I have another that is several times that long, and it doesn't flicker at the end of each page. Is there some setting in Word that might fix it. I am writing in Courier font with no special settings that I know of. "Margaret Aldis" wrote in message ... I'd hazard a guess that this is caused by having more paragraphs than is healthy marked as "keep with next" or some other complex pagination rule. The flickering often indicates Word is finding it very hard to work out the screen display, and if it happens near the end of the page that's probably deciding what to push over onto the next page. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org wrote in message oups.com... First don't tell me there's something wrong with my hardware. I've thoroughly checked out my screen. Recently Word is acting strange: as I approach the end of a page, the screen begins to flicker with each keystroke. Now, as soon as the text goes to the next page, the flickering stops. It doesn't start again until I'm about 5 lines from the bottom of the page! This is a new phenomenon. I can't think of any setting I've changed that would make this happen. I'm using Word 2000 on a laptop. This doesn't happen with any other program. Anybody ever seen this or have any suggestions? Thanks, Clif |
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Well if I'm right the solution is to find the overactive pagination rule and
fix it :-) Use Format Paragraph Line and Page Breaks and see what settings you have. You might also need to look non-breaking rows in tables, and where you have anchored text boxes and graphics, if any. I can't tell you what to set, but the settings do need to be logical - for instance if you tell Word to keep every paragraph in the doc with the next it can't do that and you are asking for trouble. Sometimes you do set something logical and Word still can't make up its mind though - I've seen it dither back and forth on whether it wanted to fit a table on a page or not g. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Clif" wrote in message ... Looks like your right. I started the next page of the manuscript as a new document, and the flickering went away. But what can I do to eliminate it. This document was about 60 pages long. I have another that is several times that long, and it doesn't flicker at the end of each page. Is there some setting in Word that might fix it. I am writing in Courier font with no special settings that I know of. "Margaret Aldis" wrote in message ... I'd hazard a guess that this is caused by having more paragraphs than is healthy marked as "keep with next" or some other complex pagination rule. The flickering often indicates Word is finding it very hard to work out the screen display, and if it happens near the end of the page that's probably deciding what to push over onto the next page. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org wrote in message oups.com... First don't tell me there's something wrong with my hardware. I've thoroughly checked out my screen. Recently Word is acting strange: as I approach the end of a page, the screen begins to flicker with each keystroke. Now, as soon as the text goes to the next page, the flickering stops. It doesn't start again until I'm about 5 lines from the bottom of the page! This is a new phenomenon. I can't think of any setting I've changed that would make this happen. I'm using Word 2000 on a laptop. This doesn't happen with any other program. Anybody ever seen this or have any suggestions? Thanks, Clif |
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