Pasting text from a web page causes Word to freeze

[Doug]

Don't you love it. I've been copying and pasting text from web pages for
years, but recently have intermittently encountering a lockup in Word. I had
assumed it was perhaps due to some new style of web page, but today it
happened after copying a paragraph of the most generic html text. So the
problem is in Word.

Any clues would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
Doug