MS Office Jumping Shaking jogging while scrolling or changing panes on external monitor

Anonymous
2017-07-24T16:01:28+00:00

Hi All, 

Im running W10 with 365 office pro 

lenovo X1 Carbon notebook

when editing word documents on an external monitor, the document tends to jump around horizontally while scrolling or editing 

its a very quick, momentary motion, but enough that it is quite nauseating to look at for extended periods of time. 

interesting thing is,  i only see this behaviour while the document is on the external monitor, not when it is on the laptop monitor 

is it some interaction between word and the video driver? 

i only see this on MS word

there is a potentially related phenomena with excel where the excel pane flickers / freezes until the monitor is unplugged or excel rebooted that occurs when dragging a pane between monitors. 

any thoughts would be 

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-12-15T23:23:15+00:00

    Hi awalke9! 

    I have a very similar setup to yours, with a Lenovo laptop plugged into an external monitor and Office 365. 

    I had the same issue and couldn't figure out for the life of me what was causing it till you pointed out that it only occurred on the external monitor. 

    It took me a couple minutes, but the solution seems to be going into windows display settings (right-click on the desktop and select 'display') and make sure the scaling % is the same on both of your monitors.

    This means you will lose a little but of screen real estate (only if you had to increase the scaling %), but the jerking should stop.

    It seems that word just doesn't like different scaling and doesn't play well with scaling other than the one on the primary monitor :/

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-12-11T21:33:03+00:00

    Hi,

    I am on my laptop (HP Envy 15t) not on external desktop, I just updated my office yesterday and it started shaking more than ever before. Please help, it is very uncomfortable. Thank you.

    Regards,

    Krutarth Patel

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-12-08T19:43:07+00:00

    Yes, finally.  This was driving me crazy. This was the only thing that worked.

    Thank you,

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-12-08T00:36:44+00:00

    Thank you, my sanity has been restored, there is a God.  Microsoft, please FIX THIS BUG.

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-12-07T18:50:00+00:00

    That worked indeed

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