Microsoft KB Archive/110757

Text Changes Color When Scrolling on PowerBook

PSS ID Number: Q110757 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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= SYMPTOM =

Text changes color when you scroll through a Word document on a secondary monitor attached to a PowerBook. Black text may switch to white, orange, yellow, or red.

= STATUS =

Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

= WORKAROUND =

Make the external monitor the primary monitor (the monitor having the menu bar). To change the primary monitor:


 * 1) From the Apple menu, choose Control Panels.
 * 2) Open the Monitors Control Panel.
 * 3) In the Monitors Control Panel, drag the white menu bar from one screen to the other.
 * 4) Close the Monitors window and restart the PowerBook.

= MORE INFORMATION =

Microsoft has received several reports of this problem and has duplicated it on the following configurations:


 * PowerBook Duo 230 attached to an Apple 13-inch monitor (using an Apple mini dock).
 * PowerBook 180 attached to an Apple 13-inch monitor.

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