Hi all,

I've got a slide show with some shapes added to it and for some bizarre reason some of the shapes are getting distorted.

It it's like a segment of the shape is getting cut out or partially divided.

Kind of difficult to describe, so I've attached a screenshot.


Anyone else seen this before or have a solution?



This shows up in both design and presentation modes.

It's very perplexing and Googling it didn't really help...I only ended up with tutorials for adding shapes.



Some quick info:
Happens in both ppt and pptx formats.
Using Win 7 with Office 2010.

Attached Images

PowerPoint Shape Distort.jpg (21.1 KB, 16 views)

Okay, this is going to sound really odd, but I think I figured out what the issue is.

In a burst of "what the heck, I'll give it a shot", I went to the PowerPoint options to see if there was a setting that jumped out at me as a potential cause.


In the Advanced section under the Display heading, I checked the box that says "Disable hardware graphics acceleration".


I fired up my presentation, and lo and behold the sliced up shapes were no more.

To verify it wasn't a fluke, I closed and opened PowerPoint several times and all my shapes stayed whole as I scrolled through the slides in design mode and as I ran the presentation scrolling through the slides.

For added testing, I went back into the options, unchecked the box, and ran the presentation again - shapes were getting cut up again. Went back and rechecked the box and it stopped.


Not sure what the overall root cause is. Could be something to do with the laptop hardware, could be Microsoft needs to fix something, or it could just be a crazy fluke that I was unlucky enough to experience with a unique set of hardware and software setting.

Either way, hopefully this will help someone else!

Thanks for posting the answer. I would look for a graphics card driver update.

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Yeah already checked that. Graphics driver and overall system are up to date.