Word will not do background pagination after making corrections and changes
while in Print Layout.

While trying to finalize the alignment of text with graphics Word:

will make the graphics/pictures disappear,
will open documents showing only one page until I scroll down
hesitate while I am typing and then play catch up

These problems happen with documents which are only 1 or 2 pages, not just
the larger documents with tables.

To correct this I have found that I must exit Word then turn my computer off
and then after it is restarted Word works properly for a while. I remember
these problems from earlier versions of MS Office when the applications had
"memory leaks" and would lose track of where the application stored the
information in RAM.

I already know you are going to blame it on just about everything in the
computer, but I remember MS finally providing patches which corrected the
earlier application errors like this.

I have, in the last three months learned to dread and hate working with MS
Office 2003 and I am now considering uninstalling 2003 and installing my old
and trustworthy MS Office 2000 or finding another product to use. These
problems have cost me so many hours of work and frustration it is getting to
be expensive.
--
Life is an adventure with God leading.

Interesting that your question was adjacent to another with video display
problems. This may be attributable to the graphics driver with recent ATI
display adapters and the Intel® 82915G/82910GL Express Chipset Family
causing particular problems. There are new drivers available from the
manufacturers that fix the problem.

Make sure you are using the latest driver, then if the problem persists, try
reducing the display's hardware acceleration.

See also http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm then
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...peningWord.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Rev Anderson wrote:
Word will not do background pagination after making corrections and
changes while in Print Layout.

While trying to finalize the alignment of text with graphics Word:

will make the graphics/pictures disappear,
will open documents showing only one page until I scroll down
hesitate while I am typing and then play catch up

These problems happen with documents which are only 1 or 2 pages, not
just the larger documents with tables.

To correct this I have found that I must exit Word then turn my
computer off and then after it is restarted Word works properly for a
while. I remember these problems from earlier versions of MS Office
when the applications had "memory leaks" and would lose track of
where the application stored the information in RAM.

I already know you are going to blame it on just about everything in
the computer, but I remember MS finally providing patches which
corrected the earlier application errors like this.

I have, in the last three months learned to dread and hate working
with MS Office 2003 and I am now considering uninstalling 2003 and
installing my old and trustworthy MS Office 2000 or finding another
product to use. These problems have cost me so many hours of work
and frustration it is getting to be expensive.