Word 2003: Can't drag and drop highlighted text

[LAC]

Usually I can highlight text and then move the text to another place. Now
when I do this I get a circle with a slash through it. I've checked
Tool-->Options-->Edit, drag and drop text editing is checked. Is there any
other way to fix this?

 

[Stefan Blom]

Does this happen with all documents? With a particular (set of) document(s)?
Could the document be protected?

If drag and drop doesn't work in new, blank documents, have you tried to
locate and rename the normal.dot template; you can search for it in Windows
(be sure to search hidden files and folders)?

 

[grammatim]

Maybe a dialog window is open -- like Find/Replace, or Insert Cross
Reference, or View Footnotes? When such things are open, drag & drop
doesn't work.

 

[LAC]

It was only happening with one document, which does seem to crash a lot (a
large doc with a lot of tables and autonumbered headers). All of a sudden
it's ok now. Thanks for responding. If it happens again I'll try naming
normal.dot.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Note that since the issue was with one document only, you had better treat
that document as corrupt. Copying the contents, except for the final
paragraph mark, into a new blank document fixes many cases of corruption (be
sure to delete any section breaks first). For details, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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