find function on Word 2007 doesn't respond

[Dr. Dave]

I posed this question a couple weeks ago, but I have vista and Word 2007 and
the find function "doesn't respond." I received a reply from Bob Buckland
who asked me: "What is the build version of Word 2007 under > Office
Button=>Word Options=>Resources? >
What is the specific term you're looking for in Find? Can you use the 'Esc'
key to stop the find and return to the document? Do you have automatic
hyphenation turned on? Do you have both left-to-right and right-to-left
languages enabled in Word 2007 and if so do you have them mixed within the
same paragraph? Is the problem with any document or only certain ones?

I answered those questions as follows: I don't know what a build version is.
pressing Office Button=>Word Options=>Resources shows a window with a number
of choices, under the last choice of "about Microsoft Word 2007" is written
Microsoft Office Word 2007 (12.0.6311.5000)SP1MSO(12.0.6213.1000). Is that
what you mean? And yes to all your questions: I have both Hebrew and
English activated and > they occur in the same paragraphs, the trouble
happens when I look for a Hebrew word in only a few documents, the Esc key
returns me to the document and auto-hyphenate is turned on. Interestingly,
the find function works fine if I start from the end of the document and
search up!!

I haven't heard from him since and the find function is still not working.
It was working fine before I upgraded to Word 2007 from Word 2000!

 

[Neil Cumfer]

the find function works fine if I start from the end of the document and
search up!!

the find function is still not working.

at least you have a workaround

It was working fine before I upgraded to Word 2007 from Word 2000!

It should also work fine if you reinstall Word 2007 but don't apply
service pack 1 for Office 2007. This is a bug that became apparent
when SP1 was applied. Of course, if you do that, you might be in
even worse shape, depending on whether the bug patches in SP1
were important for your situation.

 

[Neil Cumfer]

In theory, you might be able to do that with a macro,
but I suspect it would be unsatisfactory.

 

[Dr. Dave]

Thanks for the help. I guess I'll just search up all the time. Is there a
way to make searching up the default value so I don't have to click on More
and then on Search and then on UP every time?

 

[Bao Pu]

Thanks for the help. I guess I'll just search up all the time. Is there a
way to make searching up the default value so I don't have to click on More
and then on Search and then on UP every time?

Hi Dr. Dave,

I have documents with English and Chinese and the Find tool makes Word stop
responding too. I haven't seen a fix for this yet, but in answer to your
question, at the bottom right of your word document there should be a double
arrowhead pointing up and down. These are for the FIND tool, and I use them
all the time instead of the Find dialog box. Well, first you have to open the
dialog box, but after one click you can close the dialog box and just use the
arrows. This gets the dialog box out of the way. And, you can search up OR
down. Try experimenting with this.

good luck!
Bao Pu

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Dave,

Did the suggestions from Neil or Bao Pu work?

There is a hotfix from Microsoft that will require a phone call (but there's no support charge if you tell them the reason for the
call is to get a hotfix)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955587
that addresses some of the issues with 'Find' getting 'stuck', but I don't know if it would correct multilanguage search issues.
Word 2007 issues with right to left and left to right text in the same paragraph in .docX saved documents, but it you may want to
give the hotfix a try and let us know your results.

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I posed this question a couple weeks ago, but I have vista and Word 2007 and
the find function "doesn't respond." I received a reply from Bob Buckland
who asked me: "What is the build version of Word 2007 under > Office
Button=>Word Options=>Resources? >
What is the specific term you're looking for in Find? Can you use the 'Esc'
key to stop the find and return to the document? Do you have automatic
hyphenation turned on? Do you have both left-to-right and right-to-left
languages enabled in Word 2007 and if so do you have them mixed within the
same paragraph? Is the problem with any document or only certain ones?

I answered those questions as follows: I don't know what a build version is.
pressing Office Button=>Word Options=>Resources shows a window with a number
of choices, under the last choice of "about Microsoft Word 2007" is written
Microsoft Office Word 2007 (12.0.6311.5000)SP1MSO(12.0.6213.1000). Is that
what you mean? And yes to all your questions: I have both Hebrew and
English activated and > they occur in the same paragraphs, the trouble
happens when I look for a Hebrew word in only a few documents, the Esc key
returns me to the document and auto-hyphenate is turned on. Interestingly,
the find function works fine if I start from the end of the document and
search up!!

I haven't heard from him since and the find function is still not working.
It was working fine before I upgraded to Word 2007 from Word 2000!<<
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*