On many documents that I open, Word XP goes into a loop of recalculating the
word count, even if I don't select word count. This continual loop prevents
me from doing many things, e.g., selecting a format like italics (either the
toolbar button or Ctrl-I) and then typing in italics. I have to type in
normal format, select the words I want to italicize, and then apply the
formatting. Some documents are not affected by this. It doesn't seem to
matter how long the document is. Any ideas how to stop this?