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This has been an issue for a while. I'm using Outlook as part of Office 365 on my desktop, Dell XPS 8950. While writing an email, all of sudden, text disappears or gets distorted (e.g., some part of the text is shown and the other part is not). After scrolling up and down the mouse wheel, it usually returns to normal.
I've searched for a solution and found almost all suggested solutions say that I need to disable "overtype mode" as below. However, both options were already unchecked but the issue does not go away.
Text disappears as I type (microsoft.com)
TYPED TEXT DISAPPEARING BEFORE MY EYES ALL THE TIME WHILE TYPING EMAIL - Microsoft Community
If you know other causes or solutions, please let me know. This is really annoying and refuses to go away. If standalone Outlook (e.g., Office 2021) does not have this issue, please let me know. Thanks.
Using Classic Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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Happening here also. Win 11,
Nvidia Geo 3060.
All the latest drivers and updates.
Very annoying!
Thank you. I may try it again later after purging everything with DDU. I am running NVIDIA graphics in both of my systems at the moment, so it is no longer causing me any grief. AMD drivers have always been a little on the buggy side for me. Sometimes more than a little.
Since I switched to Office 2021, I haven't had this issue. But, this doesn't mean that Office 365 has this issue. I used to have Office 365 on my laptop and desktop. This issue happened to only my desktop. I still have Office 365 on my laptop but don't have this issue with exactly the same settings. It's mysterious.
For some users, this appears to be an on-going issue. Report it to Microsoft using the feedback facility.
Since this thread is rather old by now, it is probably a better idea to start a new thread so that it gets more attention. You can of course include a hyperlink to this as well as other threads, if appropriate.
Did anyone ever find a solution to this?