find/replace freeze the Word

[ketabkhaneh]

when I try to FIND specially FIND ALL the WORD crashes. I reinstalled the
OFFICE but nothing changed. I have also installed the SERVICE PACKS of OFFICE
AND WINDOWS.
This problem did not exist before.

Would anybody please tell me why. And how can I solve the problem.

Best

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

What version of Word and Windows?

Is there a particular search or pattern/settings where this occurs, or with any Find operation?

Does this happen in only one document or all documents?

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when I try to FIND specially FIND ALL the WORD crashes. I reinstalled the
OFFICE but nothing changed. I have also installed the SERVICE PACKS of OFFICE
AND WINDOWS.
This problem did not exist before.

Would anybody please tell me why. And how can I solve the problem.

Best>>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[ketabkhaneh]

Dear Bob

Thank you for your consideration.

The Windows is XP professional
The Office is 2007

This problem actually occures in all of word documents. if I click FIND
sometimes it finds sometimes it forces WORD to be crashed. If I click FIND IN
(ALL) or REPLACE ALL it forces WORD to be crashed. In some experiment FIND
solo caused this problem.

The find string/character is not affecting this problem. And there is no
difference when the text in the word doc is english or in other language

I run MS OFFICE DIAGNOSTICS ant it did not find any problem to be solved.

I unistalled OFFICE and reinstalled it, but nothing changed. All service
packs have also been installed for WINDOWS and OFFICE.

 

[Ashley]

I am having the same problem. It has happened about 5 times since last week -
everytime I try to find something in my document.


I've run Microsoft Update and all programs are updated.
I'm using Office 2007 in Vista.

 

[Ruud]

I have encountered the same problem after having installed SP1 of MSO 2007.
It occurs most of the time in larger documents with many tables. After
reinstallation of the initial MSO 2007 version [DVD] the find (all) and also
my Macros [with find actions] work again fine on those documents. I hope
someone or Microsoft has a solution.

Ruud.

 

[Ruud]

I found my solution in another posting in this group about the conditional
hyphens that causes Word to hang. My documents contain (by accident) a number
of consecutive conditional hyphens. After having removed those hyphens I have
no problem with Find/Replace anymore on those documents.

I have encountered the same problem after having installed SP1 of MSO 2007.
It occurs most of the time in larger documents with many tables. After
reinstallation of the initial MSO 2007 version [DVD] the find (all) and also
my Macros [with find actions] work again fine on those documents. I hope
someone or Microsoft has a solution.

Ruud.

when I try to FIND specially FIND ALL the WORD crashes. I reinstalled the
OFFICE but nothing changed. I have also installed the SERVICE PACKS of OFFICE
AND WINDOWS.
This problem did not exist before.

Would anybody please tell me why. And how can I solve the problem.

Best

 

[Otto_Roth]

Also same problem!

I print a weeks of survey requests and replies from Outlook (2007) to a
single text file and then to parse the data, I pull the ± 300 messages text
file into Word 2007 and then start cleaning up the messages till I am left
with lines of data.

Most steps are with Ctrl-H (Seaerch& Replace) first one being replace ^p^p
with ^p to get rid of all the blank files.

This WORKS WELL WITH WORD 2007 on XP Pro SP2 (my work PC and one home PC)
but should I do it on my "new" home PC that has Vista Ultimate and Office
Ultimate - it will do the 1st 1 or 2 searches and replace but the moment it
hits the rest of the first page's blank area, it hangs!

Should I move to my XP PC, Same Office Ultimate, etc, it runs like a dream!

I have no add-ins (pdf or other), Running MS Office Diagnostics, come up
100% clean...

MS Office Word 2007 (12.0.6212.1000) SP1 MSO (12.0.6213.1000) ?????

Just checked and possibly answering my own question - the versions of Word
2007 on the other 2 systems are:
Home XP Pro: (12.0.4518.1014) MSO (12.0.4518.1014), and
Work XP Pro: (12.0.6015.5000) MSO (12.0.6015.5000) !!!

Possibly I need to get rid of SP1??

Thanks for listening - Let me try that - I will be back!

Otto

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Otto,

There has been an issue with this one, although it isn't limited to the SP1 update or to vista if it's the same one.

On the first pass in Replace (Ctrl+H) see if using
Find what: ^p^p
Replace with: ^&

and then follow that with your regular search, helps, or start Word in Office safe mode (hold ctrl key when starting Word) and see
if you get the same problem.

=============
Also same problem!

I print a weeks of survey requests and replies from Outlook (2007) to a
single text file and then to parse the data, I pull the ± 300 messages text
file into Word 2007 and then start cleaning up the messages till I am left
with lines of data.

Most steps are with Ctrl-H (Seaerch& Replace) first one being replace ^p^p
with ^p to get rid of all the blank files.

This WORKS WELL WITH WORD 2007 on XP Pro SP2 (my work PC and one home PC)
but should I do it on my "new" home PC that has Vista Ultimate and Office
Ultimate - it will do the 1st 1 or 2 searches and replace but the moment it
hits the rest of the first page's blank area, it hangs!

Should I move to my XP PC, Same Office Ultimate, etc, it runs like a dream!

I have no add-ins (pdf or other), Running MS Office Diagnostics, come up
100% clean...

MS Office Word 2007 (12.0.6212.1000) SP1 MSO (12.0.6213.1000) ?????

Just checked and possibly answering my own question - the versions of Word
2007 on the other 2 systems are:
Home XP Pro: (12.0.4518.1014) MSO (12.0.4518.1014), and
Work XP Pro: (12.0.6015.5000) MSO (12.0.6015.5000) !!!

Possibly I need to get rid of SP1??

Thanks for listening - Let me try that - I will be back!

Otto >>

--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Otto_Roth]

Hi Bob,

I took the
"I-don't-have-time-to-muck-about-lets-uninstall-Office-and-reinstall-the-
first-verion-without-upates" - solution!!!

I am back to version 4518.1014 on Vista and doing a ^p^p to ^p on the same
283 page text file, it immediately came back with 7049 replacement!!!

So it is doing what I want to do - I''l stay away from the patches till I
have time to waste!

Thanks for coming back to me though - I really appreciate it!

Have a great week-end - it is too warm outside - so rather work inside thill
it gets cooler after sunset! = Regards - Otto

 

[ketabkhaneh]

Dear Ruud

Thank you for your comment.
But would you please explain what "conditional hyphens" are?

Regards

I found my solution in another posting in this group about the conditional
hyphens that causes Word to hang. My documents contain (by accident) a number
of consecutive conditional hyphens. After having removed those hyphens I have
no problem with Find/Replace anymore on those documents.

I have encountered the same problem after having installed SP1 of MSO 2007.
It occurs most of the time in larger documents with many tables. After
reinstallation of the initial MSO 2007 version [DVD] the find (all) and also
my Macros [with find actions] work again fine on those documents. I hope
someone or Microsoft has a solution.

Ruud.

when I try to FIND specially FIND ALL the WORD crashes. I reinstalled the
OFFICE but nothing changed. I have also installed the SERVICE PACKS of OFFICE
AND WINDOWS.
This problem did not exist before.

Would anybody please tell me why. And how can I solve the problem.

Best

 

[Ruud]

Dear Ruud

Thank you for your comment.
But would you please explain what "conditional hyphens" are?

Regards


"Ruud" wrote:

The conditional hyphen (or soft hyphen or discretionary hyphen) is an
invisible character that can be made visible by activating the Word button to
show formatting information, like paragraph marks, etc. and is then showed as
¬. You can enter it in your text by using the Ctrl-key and - .
I hope this is the information you asking for?

Regards,

Ruud.

 

[ketabkhaneh]

Dear Bob

Ruud found the solution to the problem that:

"I found my solution in another posting in this group about the conditional
hyphens that causes Word to hang. My documents contain (by accident) a number
of consecutive conditional hyphens. After having removed those hyphens I have
no problem with Find/Replace anymore on those documents."

However, these hyphens cannot be found and replaced by FIND/REPLACE (because
they cause WORD hanging). So, I think it is the time that Microsoft solve the
problem by modifiying the source codes of OFFICE SP1.

Look forward to hearing from you

Regards