word 2003 hangs

[Guest]

word 2003 hangs everytime I try and paste a web page any suggestions. The
botton left of my the open word document displays 212.250.172.47 I have to go
into task master and end process.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Take a look here and see if the suggestions help:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm

 

[Jezebel]

The issue is that if you simply paste material copied from a web page, Word
may try to read the stylesheet or other stuff from the source website, in
order to know how to format it. If that website is slow or stuck, that can
cause a problem. In this case, 212.250.172.47 is an unresponsive IP address
(try browsing to it). It belongs to NTLI Network Management Centre in
Winchester -- is this your own ISP? -- in which case you've maybe got a
configuration problem with your network setup.

Quick work-around is to use Paste Special and paste the stuff as plain text.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Jezebel, what you described was exactally what the issue was. I was
able to go to another web page namely 212.250.162.47 and paste the required
contents. You were right NTLI is my ISP. Thanks again your response was
superb.

 

[Guest]

I am experiencing the same problem as Stevie. When I cut and paste from any
webpage, the word app freezes with a revolving hourglass.

i read your suggestion, but I have the same problem with text from every
webpage, and I don't know how to do a special paste. Also what if I want to
copy and paste images and links etc.

Tim

 

[Guest]

I was running into the same problem but I did manage to find a reliable
workaround. I installed the Firefox browser and when I did a copy from it I
was able to paste it into Word without any problems. Just to test it out, I
copied the same bit of text from a web page opened with Internet Explorer and
it locked up Word.

 

[Guest]

I was experiencing the identical same problem, and it just started happening
in the last month or so. I kept getting the message to install an Office
update, which I did (Office SP2) but that did not resolve the problem. Any
time I tried to copy and then paste text from a webpage into a Word doc, Word
would hang with the hourglass. I jsut tried Jezebel's suggestion to do a
Special Paste and chose "Formatted Text (RTF)", and voila, no hang! I prefer
using keyboard commands for copy and paste - Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V, but
cannot use this handy shortcut any longer. In order to do a Paste Special,
Tim, you need to go to Edit -- Paste Special... A box will then pop up and
allow you to chose how you want the copied text formatted and pasted into
your doc. You should be able to use either Unformatted text or even RTF and
get the text pasted into your document successfully.

Patty S.

 

[Graham Mayor]

I think your reply comes a little late for this thread - but for *your*
problem see http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm
and to get Word to paste special from a keyboard shortcut attach the
following macro to a keyboard shortcut:

Sub PasteUnfText()
On Error GoTo oops
Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText, Placement:= _
wdInLine
End
oops:
Beep
End Sub

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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