I'm running into major problems with Word 2003 doing things all my itself
and then hanging up.

I'm running Word 2003 on XP Pro. The program frequently and randomly places
a non-functioning Table Drop-down menu on the screen (in equally random
locations) and nothing inn the Word program works after that.

When running multiple windows, the drop down menu often appears when I
return to the program even if there is no document in use and it was not
there when I went to another application.

Also, the screen randomly and all by itself will go to the reading screen (I
use print screen) and loses all the tool bars. While hitting ESC will
return to the print screen, the tool bars never come back. I have to Ctrl-S
and then Ctrl-F4 to get out, and then restart program.

I've reinstalled many times, no change. None of my other applications share
these problems or similar hang ups. I didn't find anything on this in the
Microsoft knowledge base. Can anybody help?
Is this a common error? Is there a fix?

TIA
Bob Giel
Los Angeles

There's something really weird going on here. My first suspicion is that you
have Speech Recognition installed and enabled. Try uninstalling Speech
Recognition.

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://word.mvps.org/

"Bob Giel" wrote in message
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: I'm running into major problems with Word 2003 doing things all my itself
: and then hanging up.
:
: I'm running Word 2003 on XP Pro. The program frequently and randomly
places
: a non-functioning Table Drop-down menu on the screen (in equally random
: locations) and nothing inn the Word program works after that.
:
: When running multiple windows, the drop down menu often appears when I
: return to the program even if there is no document in use and it was not
: there when I went to another application.
:
: Also, the screen randomly and all by itself will go to the reading screen
(I
: use print screen) and loses all the tool bars. While hitting ESC will
: return to the print screen, the tool bars never come back. I have to
Ctrl-S
: and then Ctrl-F4 to get out, and then restart program.
:
: I've reinstalled many times, no change. None of my other applications
share
: these problems or similar hang ups. I didn't find anything on this in the
: Microsoft knowledge base. Can anybody help?
: Is this a common error? Is there a fix?
:
: TIA
: Bob Giel
: Los Angeles
:
:
: