Word 2007 not responding when I use "find"

Suddenly Word 2007 stops responding when I control-F to find something in a
document.

It worked yesterday.

I downloaded the Service Pack and ran diagnostics and it still does it.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Tracey

Terry
Fri May 16 01:43:44 PDT 2008

Having hyphenations enabled causes this problem. It is a known bug that is
being looked into.

"Tracey Beth" <Tracey Beth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F49DE0D8-AD17-47A0-90C0-4F6CD95D41FF@microsoft.com...
> Suddenly Word 2007 stops responding when I control-F to find something in
> a
> document.
>
> It worked yesterday.
>
> I downloaded the Service Pack and ran diagnostics and it still does it.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Tracey

TraceyBeth
Fri May 16 07:57:01 PDT 2008


Thanks for your quick reply. I still have a problem, though.

I don't have hyphenation enabled as far as I know. I went through the help
topic and tried to double check, but when I get to the options menu and click
on proofing, it says "not responding" again.

"Terry Farrell" wrote:

> Having hyphenations enabled causes this problem. It is a known bug that is
> being looked into.
>
> "Tracey Beth" <Tracey Beth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F49DE0D8-AD17-47A0-90C0-4F6CD95D41FF@microsoft.com...
> > Suddenly Word 2007 stops responding when I control-F to find something in
> > a
> > document.
> >
> > It worked yesterday.
> >
> > I downloaded the Service Pack and ran diagnostics and it still does it.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tracey
>

Terry
Sat May 17 02:24:54 PDT 2008

Rerun Office setup, advanced options and under proofing make sure all
components are installed except for hyphenation.

Terry

"Tracey Beth" <TraceyBeth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A2EE0ABF-6B8E-4F38-BBA5-42959C7782B3@microsoft.com...
>
> Thanks for your quick reply. I still have a problem, though.
>
> I don't have hyphenation enabled as far as I know. I went through the help
> topic and tried to double check, but when I get to the options menu and
> click
> on proofing, it says "not responding" again.
>
> "Terry Farrell" wrote:
>
>> Having hyphenations enabled causes this problem. It is a known bug that
>> is
>> being looked into.
>>
>> "Tracey Beth" <Tracey Beth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F49DE0D8-AD17-47A0-90C0-4F6CD95D41FF@microsoft.com...
>> > Suddenly Word 2007 stops responding when I control-F to find something
>> > in
>> > a
>> > document.
>> >
>> > It worked yesterday.
>> >
>> > I downloaded the Service Pack and ran diagnostics and it still does it.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Tracey
>>

MikeBlyth
Thu May 22 04:58:01 PDT 2008

"Terry Farrell" wrote:

> Rerun Office setup, advanced options and under proofing make sure all
> components are installed except for hyphenation.
>
> Terry
>

I am having the same problem. In the setup program, though, there is no
Advanced Options for Word. It is found under Office Shared Features --
Proofing Tools -- English Proofing Tools. However, removing the hyphenation
component did not fix the problem.

Word stops responding during the search (after I press Find Next). Some
words work fine, some words find the first occurrence and crash when looking
for the next, and some words cause the lockup immediately. Word CPU use goes
to 50%.

Any more ideas?

Thanks.

MikeBlyth
Thu May 22 05:53:00 PDT 2008

I discovered that the problem was a word with 3 consecutive optional hyphens.
Some testing shows that a the pattern digit---digit causes the crash, where
the hyphens are optional hyphens. Thus "9---5" causes a crash, while
"nine---five" does not. It must be very rare to have this pattern in a
document, since it basically would be an accident. Nonetheless, it rendered
the document unusable until the problem was isolated and removed.

"Terry Farrell" wrote:

> Rerun Office setup, advanced options and under proofing make sure all
> components are installed except for hyphenation.
>
> T