Dragging box causes addition of zillions of blank pages

[Peter Davies]

In some of my word documents, attempting to drag a text box
(even if empty) either causes Word to crash or the sudden
addition of hundreds of blank pages. It turns out I am not
alone in this problem as a colleague in another state
reports the same problem as he tries to prepare a document
to send to me.
Does Microsoft have a patch for this problem?
Word 2002 running on Windows 2000.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Peter,

This is an indication that the basic file structure is
damaged. Can't say I've heard of dragging a text box doing
what you describe all too often, but it's certainly a
symptom.

Do these documents perhaps come from a common template?

If you copy the text from such a document - WITHOUT the last
paragraph mark - to a new document can you drag the text box?

n some of my word documents, attempting to drag a text box
(even if empty) either causes Word to crash or the sudden
addition of hundreds of blank pages. It turns out I am not
alone in this problem as a colleague in another state
reports the same problem as he tries to prepare a document
to send to me.
Does Microsoft have a patch for this problem?
Word 2002 running on Windows 2000.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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