I haven't read this whole thread, but I'll echo Greg's advice re video drivers and add that turning down hardware acceleration often helps with this issue as well. Sometimes turning off 3D accleration and things like that also resolves the problems. We see these kinds of display oddities quite often in the public PPT newsgroups, and usually it boils down to video drivers and related items. -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Chapman" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 3:00 PM Subject: [mso] Re: Text missing on the screen, computer problem or MS problem? > 1. Update video drivers (Seems to have been more common on Nvidia > chipsets) > 2. Get the latest Intellipoint drivers from MS (if you're using > Intellipoint hardware) ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************