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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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I had the same issue. After reading some of the posts below I tried disabling the developer tab from the customized ribbon (which I had added just before the problem started) and it solved the issue.
Fantastic! Have been suffering this problem for too long - thank you
Further to my previous post, I subsequently tried turning off the animations within Windows as per Mateoli's recommendation. This worked, and has enabled me to set the text size back to 100%.
I notice now that the only thing flickering is the little Paste options popup that is shown when you use Copy/Paste. This is easily dismissed by pressing the Esc key. I remember that often when closing a Word document that the otherwise blank window would be spattered with dozens of copies of this popup. Often things would be fine until some time into editing a document, when the jerking would start - perhaps it was when this popup first appeared, I can't say for certain. I only mention this in case it is helpful to developers in tracing and fixing the issue.
Thanks so much, I had this problem and the fix worked immediately.
Thanks so much!
This seems to have finally worked for me.