I have one specific text area that blocks whatever document I past it into.
The text seems basic enough. I've even pasted it into a plain text email to
get rid of all formatting and then pasted it back into a new, fresh Word
document. As soon as I start adding some formatting, the new document blocks
up just like the old one. What can I do?

Hi ?B?TWljaGFlbA==?=,

I have one specific text area that blocks whatever document I past it into.
The text seems basic enough. I've even pasted it into a plain text email to
get rid of all formatting and then pasted it back into a new, fresh Word
document. As soon as I start adding some formatting, the new document blocks
up just like the old one.

Have you tried pasting it into Notepad?

Have you tried using Edit/Paste Special and pasting as unformatted text?

How long is this text "snippet" that's causing the problem? Does it contain a
lot of unusual words (that spell-check won't recognize)?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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THanks!
It's not very long at all. It is Italian text on an American version of
Word but I run Italian text a lot so I don't see that as a problem. It works
fine in Word Pad but then I cannot format it as I need to. I will try "Paste
Special" as unformatted but I thought that is basically what I'd done by
bringing it in from a plain text email.
I don't know what else to do.

"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote:

Hi ?B?TWljaGFlbA==?=,

I have one specific text area that blocks whatever document I past it into.
The text seems basic enough. I've even pasted it into a plain text email to
get rid of all formatting and then pasted it back into a new, fresh Word
document. As soon as I start adding some formatting, the new document blocks
up just like the old one.

Have you tried pasting it into Notepad?

Have you tried using Edit/Paste Special and pasting as unformatted text?

How long is this text "snippet" that's causing the problem? Does it contain a
lot of unusual words (that spell-check won't recognize)?

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 :-)

I don't know if this helps but the errors occur when I try to convert a
normal paragraph to a number list or when I try to avoid a style like
"heading 1". When it crashes and recovers, Word tells me it has
automatically repaired "Styles 1".

"Michael" wrote:

THanks!
It's not very long at all. It is Italian text on an American version of
Word but I run Italian text a lot so I don't see that as a problem. It works
fine in Word Pad but then I cannot format it as I need to. I will try "Paste
Special" as unformatted but I thought that is basically what I'd done by
bringing it in from a plain text email.
I don't know what else to do.

"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote:

Hi ?B?TWljaGFlbA==?=,

I have one specific text area that blocks whatever document I past it into.
The text seems basic enough. I've even pasted it into a plain text email to
get rid of all formatting and then pasted it back into a new, fresh Word
document. As soon as I start adding some formatting, the new document blocks
up just like the old one.

Have you tried pasting it into Notepad?

Have you tried using Edit/Paste Special and pasting as unformatted text?

How long is this text "snippet" that's causing the problem? Does it contain a
lot of unusual words (that spell-check won't recognize)?

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 :-)

Hi ?B?TWljaGFlbA==?=,

I don't know if this helps but the errors occur when I try to convert a
normal paragraph to a number list or when I try to avoid a style like
"heading 1". When it crashes and recovers, Word tells me it has
automatically repaired "Styles 1".

What do you mean by "avoid a style like heading 1"?

If this were happening "all the time", I'd say try renaming your Normal.dot
template, start up Word, and test in the new document on-screen.

If you're still seeing the problem, copy/paste the paragraph into your next reply.

Also, which version of Word is this?

It's not very long at all. It is Italian text on an American version of
Word but I run Italian text a lot so I don't see that as a problem. It works
fine in Word Pad but then I cannot format it as I need to. I will try "Paste
Special" as unformatted but I thought that is basically what I'd done by
bringing it in from a plain text email.
I don't know what else to do.


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 :-)