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Word freezes while editing tables
I have a document that consists of a series of Word tables. The file
is about 215 kb. I had been working on this file on and off over several days. While recently working on this file the hour-glass symbol came on and the computer "froze". No error message, I just couldn't do anything. I closed down Word and the computer, and the same thing happened when I tried to work on this file (e.g copying, navigating through the file). I can open other Word files without problem. I installed a copy of the Staroffice program, and was able to open this file and save all the tables to an older version of this file. However, as soon as I added the last table the file in Word froze again. I have Office 97 and XP installed. I also ran a virus scan. No problems were detected. Any advice regarding what this problem might be and how it might be fixed would be appreciated, regards Bob Green |
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Hi Bob,
It sounds like something in the file structures is damaged. It could be just this one table. It could be something else that adding this table triggers. I guessing it could be this one table... Create a new document. Copy and paste the text out of the current file (an older version that doesn't contain the "bad" table), NOT including the last paragraph mark. Now try to create the new table (do NOT try to copy it). Can you insert the new table? If you can, File/SaveAs, then start working with it, keeping track of the actions. If Word fails again we'll then have a set of steps to follow that may give us some clues. I have a document that consists of a series of Word tables. The file is about 215 kb. I had been working on this file on and off over several days. While recently working on this file the hour-glass symbol came on and the computer "froze". No error message, I just couldn't do anything. I closed down Word and the computer, and the same thing happened when I tried to work on this file (e.g copying, navigating through the file). I can open other Word files without problem. I installed a copy of the Staroffice program, and was able to open this file and save all the tables to an older version of this file. However, as soon as I added the last table the file in Word froze again. I have Office 97 and XP installed. I also ran a virus scan. No problems were detected. Any advice regarding what this problem might be and how it might be fixed would be appreciated, Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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