Visio: all text became covered with gray pattern

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Suddenly all the text in all the documents (including any new document) looks like this:

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But if I double-click it to edit, the text is indeed there:

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I think it's some global Visio setting, but I couldn't find the culprit. Ideas?

Violet Giraffe

Posted 2016-05-29T06:46:05.040

Reputation: 822

Answers

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Options -> Advanced in the Display section and set Greek text under to a smaller font size. It's normally 4pt I think.

Paul Herber

Posted 2016-05-29T06:46:05.040

Reputation: 1 607

No, Greeking is a way of improving display performance by not showing the detail in very small text. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeking

– Paul Herber – 2016-05-29T17:08:08.323

Oww, live and learn. It all makes sense now, thanks. Booting up the laptop to check your solution now. – Violet Giraffe – 2016-05-29T19:39:06.870