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Hi,
Im running Office 365 2016 on a new MacBook 13 Pro touch bar, under Sierra 10.12.1. Im faced with a flickering screen when running a powerpoint presentation in presentation mode. So far I've tried just about every thing, even wiping the entire disc and reinstalling all software (just to make sure there was no garbage left form my old Mac). The flickering issue seems only to occur in PP and more specific in the presentation mode. When running the same presentation in keynote (by opening the .pptx file) the issue does not occur. At this point it seems to be isolated to MS Office - PP.
Has anybody encountered something similar? Any ideas?
Thanks!
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Hi guys,
Thanks for your patience. It looks like this issue has been fixed in macOS Sierra version 10.12.4 Beta 2. Let us know if you continue to run into any problems. And thanks for helping us troubleshoot this!
-Amy M.
Apple released 10.12.4 yesterday. This release should include the fix for the screen flickering issue. If folks could update and then confirm back on this thread if that is indeed the case, that would be great.
Thanks so much,
Amy M.
Also having the issue. Intermittent flickering when in slideshow mode.
MacOS Sierra 10.12.3
Powerpoint 15.31 (365)
Macbook Pro 13" TouchBar
The way I've been temporarily stopping it is by adjusting the brightness, as others have also suggested, which is unacceptable in the long term. Other suggestions such as reducing resolution and closing the lid are even more inconvenient and unacceptable.
Also tried a number of things on the laptop end to try and resolve, as suggested by apple support, including NVRAM and **** reset, running diagnostics, running in recovery mode, reinstalling Sierra, wiping the laptop and installing Sierra and applications from scratch.
I believe I submitted the feedback via the smiley when I first experienced the issue a couple of weeks ago, but have just done it again to make sure.
If you are experiencing this issue, please submit the feedback via powerpoint to make sure it's sufficiently on their radar and that they are aware of how widespread the issue is.
I can confirm that previous Mac version 2011 of PP does not show this problem. I have not returned to PP-2016. What about your experience? Thank you.
Hi,
A previous post indicated that this option did not work (fgonzale in reply to Amy last 16 of February). Has there been any change since then?
Best