Mac Forum / Applications / Word / February 2006

Hi Greg:

This is the "incomplete pagination" bug, which seems to be revisiting us in
Word 2004.

It's a very old bug which first surfaced in Word 6 on the PC.  It is
sensitive to (among other things...) the graphics driver used on the machine
in question.  You may find that by reducing the colour depth of your
computer's display, you experience the problem less often.

It is very irritating.  It's a by-product of Word's "idle loop" processing
architecture.  Usually you can 'cure' it by:

1)  Page BACK in the document two or three screenfuls

2)  Page forward to where you were.

This flushes the "screen buffer" in which Word keeps the made-up copy of the
onscreen image, and forces Word to redraw its screen.  Going back is better
than going forward, because Word stores only a limited amount in the screen
buffer, but it usually stores (roughly) the previous page and the five
following the page where you are actually working.  By paging back, you have
to page a lesser distances to force a buffer flush.

If that doesn't fix it:

A) Click into Normal View (there's a button for that at the bottom left of
the window)

B) Tap the up- or down-arrow (to force the area you were working in onto the
display

C)  Click back into Page Layout view.

This forces Word to repaginate the entire document, and in doing so, to
flush all of its buffers.  It can take a few seconds to do this on a long
document.

Cheers

On 7/2/06 2:45 AM, in article
1139240747.136913.287980@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com, "Greg"
<greglyon@umich.edu> wrote: