Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - Office content bodies randomly skewed http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - Office content bodies randomly skewed http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums en Wed, 22 May 2013 02:08:46 GMT Wed, 22 May 2013 02:08:46 GMT Rev9 19 -19 -1 Coffeehouse - Office content bodies randomly skewed Has anyone noticed Office 2010 text bodies randomly skew to the left and maybe up.  I've seen it in Word, Outlook emails, Outlook appointments, etc.  It is always the main body of content that is whacked.  Minimizing the windows and bringing it back up causes it to redraw back to normal.

It doesn't seem to happen when the window is active.  Usually I'm off doing something else and look over and see it has gone whacky.

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Sometimes, the position of selected text gets out of sync with what otherwise is not selected. Next time it happens, I'll post a screen shot.  A picture is worth a thousand words.

-Josh

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Or put down the wine bottle? Big Smile

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Just this week my debugging broke for web stuff in VS (at least with Cassini). If I manually attached the debugger to the process when the breakpoint was hit VS would go wonky just like my past experience with Outlook. I'm sure it's totally unrelated but an interesting similar behavior none the less.

Video driver updates fixed neither of these problems unfortunately.

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-Josh

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I'd still look for updated drivers for your graphics card. A signed driver doesn't mean anything.

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Most of the time it appears that the text is being drawn as if the text area was skewed up and to the left a few hundred pixels; yet the text boundaries within which it would normally be drawn are normal and as they were.  The text can be interacted with as if nothing is wrong ... except for the fact that the left and top few hundred pixels worth are not visible.

@blowdart: Not sure on the video drivers.  Will have to check.  Its a fairly new (in last 12 months) Dell laptop with the factory image.

@DeathByVisualStudio: I haven't seen anything that bad.  A simple minimizing of the window and restore is enough to fix it.

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Skewed Outlook email editor

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, davewill wrote

I managed to capture a pic of a skewed Outlook email window today.  The black blocks were added to protect the content.

That does scream video driver.

 

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, blowdart wrote

*snip*

That does scream video driver.

 

 

Hmmmm.  Interesting.  There are 2 display adapters showing.  An NVIDIA and an Intel.  The built-in display and the external display are being driven by the Intel driver if I'm reading it correctly.  Am I?

Device Manager List

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, davewill wrote

*snip*

 

Hmmmm.  Interesting.  There are 2 display adapters showing.  An NVIDIA and an Intel.  The built-in display and the external display are being driven by the Intel driver if I'm reading it correctly.  Am I?

Device Manager List

Yea, the nvidia stuff will only kick in when you play games

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, ZippyV wrote

Why don't you upgrade to SQL management Studio 2012? It's compatible with 2008 and uses the VS2010 gui.

If I could use my SQL2000 keyboard shortcuts with 2012, I would switch. Old habits die hard.

-Josh

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Because the problem is in a specific area (possibly a common control) and the rest of the screen is not affected makes me think that area needs to be investigated.

Does anyone know if the text editing area is a common "thing" (how about that technical term) that would be used my Word, Excel, SQL Mgmt Studio, and Outlook?

What would be a good way to investigate that "thing"?

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, davewill wrote

@blowdart: Ok.  Intel HD Graphics updated from 8.15.10.2455 to 8.15.10.2761.  NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M updated from 8.17.12.6830 to 8.17.12.8577.

Even newer video driver for NVIDIA applied.  8.17.12.9610.  Let's see how that goes.

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Intel HD Graphics = 8.15.10.2345

NVidia GeForce GT 525 M = 8.17.12.8577

Hmmm.  Interesting that the Intel HD Graphics driver was 8.15.10.2455 to start this troubleshooting process.  I wonder where that puppy came from.

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