My document is frozen and the colored wheelis spinning. What do I do?

[Greg91]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I was working on a document, tried to copy and paste something from the internet onto it, and now the document is frozen, unsaved, and that annoying little colored wheel is spinning.

What do I do about this?

Thanks!

Greg

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Greg:

There's "nothing" you can do about this.

When you "paste" material from a different code structure into a document, a
whole lot of things happen very fast while Word re-expresses the content in
the same encoding as the document.

It often falls over trying to do this.

I got into the habit of "Save Before Surgery" many years ago. So I still
get the beach-balls, I just don't lose data doing it

You could suggest that Microsoft should make its product a little more
robust. We have suggested this. It hasn't happened yet.

Sorry about that.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I was working on a document, tried to copy and paste something from the
internet onto it, and now the document is frozen, unsaved, and that annoying
little colored wheel is spinning.

What do I do about this?

Thanks!

Greg

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[CyberTaz]

Hi Greg -

That's one of the pitfalls of copying stuff from the web - you never know
what you might wind up with & it may even vary based on your browser.

If the wheel is still spinning after all this time the only remedy is to use
the Force Quit option of OS X. [Make sure to submit the error report if
prompted to do so.] With any luck the document will reopen when you launch
Word again based on the AutoRecover Data feature of Word. Assuming it does
so it would then be a good idea to do a Save As to create a new file based
on its content. Hopefully you won't lose anything you had done prior to the
attempted pasting.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac