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Word 2003: Can't drag and drop highlighted text
Usually I can highlight text and then move the text to another place. Now
when I do this I get a circle with a slash through it. I've checked Tool--Options--Edit, drag and drop text editing is checked. Is there any other way to fix this? -- LAC |
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Word 2003: Can't drag and drop highlighted text
Does this happen with all documents? With a particular (set of) document(s)?
Could the document be protected? If drag and drop doesn't work in new, blank documents, have you tried to locate and rename the normal.dot template; you can search for it in Windows (be sure to search hidden files and folders)? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "LAC" wrote: Usually I can highlight text and then move the text to another place. Now when I do this I get a circle with a slash through it. I've checked Tool--Options--Edit, drag and drop text editing is checked. Is there any other way to fix this? -- LAC |
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Word 2003: Can't drag and drop highlighted text
Maybe a dialog window is open -- like Find/Replace, or Insert Cross
Reference, or View Footnotes? When such things are open, drag & drop doesn't work. On Feb 4, 7:19*am, Stefan Blom wrote: Does this happen with all documents? With a particular (set of) document(s)? Could the document be protected? If drag and drop doesn't work in new, blank documents, have you tried to locate and rename the normal.dot template; you can search for it in Windows (be sure to search hidden files and folders)? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "LAC" wrote: Usually I can highlight text and then move the text to another place. *Now when I do this I get a circle with a slash through it. *I've checked Tool--Options--Edit, drag and drop text editing is checked. *Is there any other way to fix this? * -- LAC- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Word 2003: Can't drag and drop highlighted text
It was only happening with one document, which does seem to crash a lot (a
large doc with a lot of tables and autonumbered headers). All of a sudden it's ok now. Thanks for responding. If it happens again I'll try naming normal.dot. -- LAC "Stefan Blom" wrote: Does this happen with all documents? With a particular (set of) document(s)? Could the document be protected? If drag and drop doesn't work in new, blank documents, have you tried to locate and rename the normal.dot template; you can search for it in Windows (be sure to search hidden files and folders)? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "LAC" wrote: Usually I can highlight text and then move the text to another place. Now when I do this I get a circle with a slash through it. I've checked Tool--Options--Edit, drag and drop text editing is checked. Is there any other way to fix this? -- LAC |
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Word 2003: Can't drag and drop highlighted text
Note that since the issue was with one document only, you had better treat
that document as corrupt. Copying the contents, except for the final paragraph mark, into a new blank document fixes many cases of corruption (be sure to delete any section breaks first). For details, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "LAC" wrote in message ... It was only happening with one document, which does seem to crash a lot (a large doc with a lot of tables and autonumbered headers). All of a sudden it's ok now. Thanks for responding. If it happens again I'll try naming normal.dot. -- LAC "Stefan Blom" wrote: Does this happen with all documents? With a particular (set of) document(s)? Could the document be protected? If drag and drop doesn't work in new, blank documents, have you tried to locate and rename the normal.dot template; you can search for it in Windows (be sure to search hidden files and folders)? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "LAC" wrote: Usually I can highlight text and then move the text to another place. Now when I do this I get a circle with a slash through it. I've checked Tool--Options--Edit, drag and drop text editing is checked. Is there any other way to fix this? -- LAC |
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