Strange new flickering screen

[alamodoc]

First don't tell me there's something wrong with my hardware. I've
thoroughly checked out my screen.

Recently Word is acting strange: as I approach the end of a page, the
screen begins to flicker with each keystroke. Now, as soon as the text
goes to the next page, the flickering stops. It doesn't start again
until I'm about 5 lines from the bottom of the page!

This is a new phenomenon. I can't think of any setting I've changed
that would make this happen. I'm using Word 2000 on a laptop. This
doesn't happen with any other program. Anybody ever seen this or have
any suggestions?

Thanks, Clif

 

[Margaret Aldis]

I'd hazard a guess that this is caused by having more paragraphs than is
healthy marked as "keep with next" or some other complex pagination rule.
The flickering often indicates Word is finding it very hard to work out the
screen display, and if it happens near the end of the page that's probably
deciding what to push over onto the next page.

 

[Clif]

Looks like your right. I started the next page of the manuscript as a new
document, and the flickering went away. But what can I do to eliminate it.
This document was about 60 pages long. I have another that is several times
that long, and it doesn't flicker at the end of each page. Is there some
setting in Word that might fix it. I am writing in Courier font with no
special settings that I know of.

 

[Margaret Aldis]

Well if I'm right the solution is to find the overactive pagination rule and
fix it

Use Format > Paragraph > Line and Page Breaks and see what settings you
have. You might also need to look non-breaking rows in tables, and where you
have anchored text boxes and graphics, if any. I can't tell you what to set,
but the settings do need to be logical - for instance if you tell Word to
keep every paragraph in the doc with the next it can't do that and you are
asking for trouble. Sometimes you do set something logical and Word still
can't make up its mind though - I've seen it dither back and forth on
whether it wanted to fit a table on a page or not <g>.