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
    2017-11-23T23:40:58+00:00

    Yes yes yes yes It worked for me

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-11-29T05:27:56+00:00

    Legend... thanks Mateoli. This was driving me nuts!

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-11-30T10:33:11+00:00

    Worked for me.

    Surface book, Surface docking station, Word 'shimmy' bug on secondary screen.

    Solved

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-12-04T14:23:36+00:00

    Had the same issue where my word document would shake when I was on an external monitor through a laptop expansion dock (HP Thunderbolt), after searching around and finding this fix for turning off animated controls the problem is fixed.

    Control panel > System and security > System > Advanced system settings (in upper-left side) > Advanced tab > Settings in Performance box > Visual effects:

    Here please disable Animate controls and elements inside windows

    Thanks so much. I had the same issue on an external display with a Surface Pro 4, and this solved it.

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-12-05T07:25:53+00:00

    Hello Gabor,

    We'd like to know if you've already tried the suggestions that were posted by other community members in this thread such as opening Office apps in safe mode and updating the display driver. Let us know the troubleshooting steps that you've tried.

    We're looking forward to your response.

    Hello Hector,

    Sorry for late response. Safe mode does not helped, display driver was updated before my post, so does not helped also.

    But this post solved the issue "mateoli replied on September 20, 2017"

    "Control panel > System and security > System > Advanced system settings (in upper-left side) > Advanced tab > Settings in Performance box > Visual effects:

    Here please disable Animate controls and elements inside windows"

    I glad to find the solution in this case, but i hope at all client not needed to change the main settings of Windows Visual effects, and Microsoft will investigate the root cause and will solve it.

    Thx,

    Gabor

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