Text disappears or distorted while typing on Outlook (Office 365)

Anonymous
2022-10-24T21:26:05+00:00

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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-04-11T16:20:32+00:00

    I have exactly the same issue as the original poster.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-03-27T13:50:22+00:00

    We have the same issue, users are running on different Lenovo ThinkPad T14s gen 1, 2, 3, T490s, X1 Carbon, All on Win10. Tried to add Outlook.exe so HA is "disabled" Let Windows decide. But users are still complaining

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-03-21T10:18:47+00:00

    I get an extra drop down box for no 2. This lets me select NVidia or integrated graphics for the app and it is set to integrated so box 3 is all disabled

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-03-21T09:09:17+00:00

    there is a gpu selection tab. see if you can change integrated to Nvidia.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-03-20T10:20:04+00:00

    I am having this issue too in all MS Office programs when I am typing text (on a laptop). I look in the Nvidia control panel Manage 3D settings for outlook.exe and it says that Integrated graphics are selected so I assume I can't do anything to in there. I am mainly see the effects when I am typing on my attached monitor (via HDMI) so will that still be on integrated graphics?

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