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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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Same problem with a NVIDIA RTX 3090 and Office Home and Business 2021. It happens in both Outlook and Word and no fix worked. Extremely annoying.
Same problem for months. Very annoying.
Same problem here, affecting Word and Outlook. I have updated Nvidia-drivers. Very annoying.
Same problem for one of my customer in a VDI environment for 100 people (law business), Windows 11, O365 Apps for enterprise version 2306 and NVIDIA Grid T4 with driver version 528.89.
Part of the previous word disappear when typing text. If I stop at the good moment, a part of the word stay "invisible". If I refresh the mail/word (scroll, underline etc..), the word reappear instantly.
Clearly a kind of "refresh" problem like a buggy performance optimizer that refresh the screen "on change" but sometime the optimizer take a "snapshot" before the word is displayed and the screen stay with invisible letters.
It definitely appears to be a Microsoft problem since it is affecting both NVIDIA and AMD powered systems. They need to get their act together and fix it. I won't have a surprise look on my face if they don't. They'll blame someone else and not care if only a few people that are complaining. It's extremely annoying.