All autoshapes are not showing up in publisher 2003

[disgruntled]

When using autoshapes in Publisher 2003, The resize buttons are available but
the line of the autoshape is not shown. When in the format menu, The default
line colour is set to white, but will not change to black when prompted.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Ed Bennett]

When using autoshapes in Publisher 2003, The resize buttons are
available but the line of the autoshape is not shown. When in the
format menu, The default line colour is set to white, but will not
change to black when prompted.

If you add a black background, do the white AutoShapes appear on that?

 

[disgruntled]

I have tried changing the background and autoshapes are still not showing.
Any thoughts?

 

[Mary Sauer]

Do you have "high contrast" enabled in the Accessibility Options folder in the
control panel? If you do clear the option.
Do a detect and repair found under help.

Does this happen in every publication? Are you working in a print publication or
a web page? Is the autoshape clipart? Do you have detailed display enabled in
view, pictures?

 

[disgruntled]

To answer all of your questions,

High contrast is not enabled in the accesibility options
I have already tried a detect and repair with no luck
This happens in every publication in publisher, although the same autoshapes
work in other apps, Word etc.
The autoshapes are not clipart
Detailed display is enabled.

Thank you for the suggestions. Now very disgruntled!!!!

 

[Ed Bennett]

To answer all of your questions,

High contrast is not enabled in the accesibility options
I have already tried a detect and repair with no luck
This happens in every publication in publisher, although the same
autoshapes work in other apps, Word etc.
The autoshapes are not clipart
Detailed display is enabled.

This is almost certainly a problem with your video driver.

By going to Display Properties > Settings > Advanced > Troubleshoot, and
dragging the Hardware Acceleration slider down three notches, you will be
able to disable Publisher from making the calls on the video driver that
cause this problem.

If this does fix your problem, it means that the problem does indeed lie
with the video driver. You can leave your computer running at this lower
hardware acceleration, but it may cause problems with other programs. It is
a better solution to try and find a driver update for your graphics card.
Normally, the latest drivers from the video card manufacturer will do the
trick, but ATI (and recently Intel and Dell) tend to be slower in perfecting
their drivers, so some newer ATI and Intel cards to not yet have drivers
available that do not exhibit this behaviour. The solution here is to nag
ATI/Intel/Dell for better drivers.

(Please note that even if your computer is brand new, you won't necessarily
have the latest drivers)