This includes relying on hardware acceleration, which is managed through the operating system. Office 2013 and later versions use a more efficient and accelerated method to draw the Office UI and the content. You may experience these symptoms if you have a video configuration on your computer that is incompatible with the Office feature set that is responsible for displaying the application and for animations in the application. In Microsoft Lync, there may be video delays or slowness when you are on a video call.The performance of an Office program (other than startup and shutdown) is reduced.Text in your document is not displayed well.

An Office program is either mostly all white or all black.For example, you see animations in Excel when you scroll through a worksheet on one computer, but you do not see the same animations on another computer.Īdditionally, you may experience one or more of the following symptoms that reduce the functionality of an Office program: When you use Microsoft Office programs, you notice that visual features differ from one computer to another.

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