Word 2003 crash when drag and drop

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Allan Editor - 01 Mar 2008 17:55 GMT

I have Word 2003 (11.xxx) SP1. Occasionally when I highlight some text and
try to drag it to a new location to drop or copy, Word crashes. Sometimes
there is an error message, sometimes it just locks up with the hourglass icon
on. If I have several Word windows active, they all lock up or crash.
Anybody heard of this and/or know of a solution? Thanks very much!

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xlatorpl - 14 Mar 2008 21:52 GMT

> I have Word 2003 (11.xxx) SP1. Occasionally when I highlight some text and
> try to drag it to a new location to drop or copy, Word crashes. Sometimes
> there is an error message, sometimes it just locks up with the hourglass icon
> on. If I have several Word windows active, they all lock up or crash.
> Anybody heard of this and/or know of a solution? Thanks very much!

I don't know if misery loves company, but the same thing happens to me (XP
Pro/Word 2003/ SP2). I always get an error message and the files have (so
far) always been recoved unharmed, but it is a PITA to have to be selecting
the recovered versions of open documents to save, renaming them, and then
trying to return to my train of thought as often as I have to. I'd've
imagined that Word would be beyond such petty problems by now.

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