Any way to unfreeze one Word document?

[Sesquipedalian Sam]

I did something that was not too smart. I pasted 60,000 lines from a
tab-delimited text file into Word 2007 intending to convert it into a
table for sorting. I should have used Excel.

Anyway, Word is now "frozen". All I get is the hour-glass cursor and
"(Not Responding)" in the title bar.

If i click on the X icon to close it, I get the message the Office
Recovery message about forcing Word and losing data. I don't care
about the data in that document, but I have 5-6 other documents open.
They are all "Not Responding", so if I force one I force them all.

Is there any way to force just the one document and leave the others
intact so I can save before closing?

 

[Stefan Blom]

I'm afraid that Windows will close the Word session, so you are likely to lose
all data in other open documents up to the point where those documents were last
saved.

 

[Sesquipedalian Sam]

I'm afraid that Windows will close the Word session, so you are likely to lose
all data in other open documents up to the point where those documents were last
saved.

That's what I was afraid of, so I let it run for awhile. After about
45 minutes, it finally unfroze and I was able to close the offending
document. The rest were OK.

 

[bj]

That's what I was afraid of, so I let it run for awhile. After about
45 minutes, it finally unfroze and I was able to close the offending
document. The rest were OK.

Maybe it was just having trouble choking down so much paste-in at once?
rather than actually "frozen"?

Sometimes I think something is "frozen" when actually it's just busy
digesting whatever I've told it to do. Good time to go do the chores, take a
walk, have dinner.....and try to remember not to do *that* again -- or at
least plan the timing better.
bj

 

[Stefan Blom]

I'm glad you got it sorted.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Apparently, Word was just "digesting" in this case.

I suspect that most of us wouldn't have the patience to wait, the way you did...

 

[Sesquipedalian Sam]

Apparently, Word was just "digesting" in this case.

I suspect that most of us wouldn't have the patience to wait, the way you did...

Well, I don't think bj waited, but I could be wrong. I waited because
I had several other documents and, at that point, I wasn't even quite
sure which ones they were, let alone what changes I might have made
and not saved.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Well, I don't think bj waited [...]

No, sorry, my reply was for you, not for "bj."