How do I turn on drag and drop in MS Word 2007?

[Zinniasoup]

It seems that drag and drop has stopped working..... I have no clue why.
There are instructions on how to turn drag and drop on/off for MS Word 2003,
but I can't find the directions on how to do this for Word 2007. I'd like to
turn this back on. Can anyone help?

 

[NancyCats]

Click on the the Office Button (top/left) and at the bottom of that window click on Word Options.
In that window choose Advanced.
Drag and Drop is the third choice down.

(That said... it doesn't always work even when you have selected it. Sigh)

 

[robg1010]

The problem could have to do with the Symbols dialog box. When you open the Symbols dialog box, that box is modeless. This means you can leave the dialog box open and click back into the document to reposition your cursor for the next insertion. However, I found that if I keep the Symbols box open while editing my document, the drag-and-drop feature will not work. Once the Symbols box is closed, the drag-and-drop works fine.