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
    2023-02-23T20:25:17+00:00

    Try this experiment to see if it resolves the problem for you. In Windows 11 go to SETTINGS/TIME and LANGUAGE and select TYPING. Make the following changes if they are not already configured this way.

    1. Show text suggestions while typing on the physical keyboard Switch to ON
    2. Multilingual text suggestions Switch to OFF
    3. Autocorrect misspelled words Switch to ON
    4. Highlight misspelled words Switch to ON

    The only one that I know for sure that affects the disappearing text in MS Word at least on my PC is item one. You will have to put up with text suggestions in your document while you’re typing at least until the problem gets further resolved by Microsoft, but the annoying disappearing/reappearing text has been tamed at least for the time being with this solution on my PC. Hope it helps! The Widow/Orphan control in paragraphs settings solution was helpful but entire typed conversations occasionally disappeared momentarily. The appearance of random text at the cursor seems to have gone the way of the Dodo with both of these solutions in my setup.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-01-26T10:27:02+00:00

    then this issue is much wider.

    No word from MS so far.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-01-22T21:03:21+00:00

    I have the same problem in Word, Office 365 subscription, Windows 10 Pro, both with most recent updates, with display suddenly vanishing for seconds in Word and reappearing after I continue typing, but my problems started only after buying a new LG monitor a few months ago; this happens only in Word and only on this PC, so it may strangely be display driven. If there is a solution to this issue, please let me know. Thank you!!!

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-01-11T02:33:48+00:00

    My Win11 just updated to latest version and I was getting this issue as well. I pressed the insert key and it stopped. Like the OS update turned on insert by default on the keyboard.

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