Drag and drop text editing does not work

[rfIPS]

Using Word03 w/ XPPro SP2. For some reason, my drag and drop feature suddenly
stopped working. Tried disabling and re-enabling in Tools-Options-Edit tab
but it didn't correct the problem. Can anyone help?

Thx in advance!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What are you trying to drag and drop? Where are you trying to drop it?

 

[rfIPS]

Hi Suzanne,

Thanks for your reply. Just trying to drag and drop text and actually, a
restart got it working again. I had tried that once but came across a
suggestion that said to run the following commands: regsvr32 ole32.dll &
regsvr32 /i shell32.dll. These didn't work so I restarted again and drag and
drop started working. :-\

Not sure what got it going but it's now working.

thought I'd try it a second time and it worked.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Amazing how many problems a restart/reboot will solve!

 

[grammatim]

Drag 'n' Drop doesn't work when certain panels are open, such as Cross
Reference. Maybe you had one of those open at the time.

(When you do, you get a crossed-circle icon over the cursor when you
try to drag stuff.)

 

[rfIPS]

Hi Grammatim, A restart solved my issue but I wanted to clarify that I didn't
have any cross panels open and did not notice the crossed-circle icon. Thanks
for your suggestion, though.