Text disappearing and reappearing while typing MS word

Anonymous
2022-10-18T02:21:04+00:00

Hey All,

Running windows 11. ASUS m16.

Today a very weird quirk in word cropped up. As I'm typing, words that I've just typed will have random letters disappear and then reappear. When I delete something, sometimes the thing I just deleted will reappear on the document only to disappear when I'm typing elsewhere. No lag or anything happening, just randomly disappearing characters and reluctantly deleted words. Any idea if this is an issue related to a recent patch?

Cheers,

Nate

Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For education | Windows

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Anonymous
2023-05-10T09:01:09+00:00

Enabling typing suggestions as suggested by MH524 on 23rd Feb 2023 seems to reduce, but not fully fix the issue for me. However, the suggestion popups are VERY distracting! Perhaps the suggestions popup causes a refresh of the image which clears the missing characters.

HOWEVER, I THINK I FOUND A FIX, based on this idea of "refreshing".

I found an article on techpowerup entitled "Graphical glitch in Word and Outlook (Office 365)".

I don't have GeForce Experience installed, but I do have Nvidia control panel, so I did the following things (I'm not sure that all of them are needed), but this is now fixed and working for me:

  1. In Nvidia control panel, I added Word and Outlook as separate programs to my "Manage 3D settings" under the "Program Settings" tab and for both I set the following:
  2. "Low latency mode" = Ultra.
  3. "power management mode = Nvidia recommended
  4. "preferred refresh rate = highest available.
  5. "vertical sync" = on

I restarted Word and Outlook and the disappearing characters are gone!

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-01-04T14:37:32+00:00

    I've also had the issue for a few weeks. Finally tried to figure out what is going on. Running Win11 22H2, with 13th Gen Intel CPU, and 3060 Nvidia. Brand new machine. This is infuriating. Typing is broken!!

    Never had text-disappearing issues with previous computers using Nvidia cards either.

    I fully expect Microsoft to point at Nvidia, and Nvidia to point back at Microsoft. Awesome. Probably take 2 years to fix.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-12-11T18:05:03+00:00

    Thank you for the suggestions, Stefan. I downloaded and installed the latest driver from the NVIDIA site and disconnected my second monitor. Unfortunately the problem still occurs.

    One new clue: At one point when I stopped typing after a glitch I noticed that the disappeared characters did not reappear until I started typing again several seconds later.

    FWIW I found the same problem reported here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/text-disappears-and-reappears-as-i-write/fff5c34e-6c0c-46eb-9c50-ffc805bcfbab

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-02-13T15:14:49+00:00

    Hey MS, I have the same issue. Intel CPU/NVIDIA GPU/drivers, Win 11.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-01-13T02:34:12+00:00

    I tried that several times with no luck.

    According to nvidia, MS aware of this issue and it will be fixed in the next office update. the only work around now is to plug the screen to intel integrated graphic card.

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