Hi Jacques:
In colloquial Mac practice, the spinning disk is known as "The Beachball".
If you say "Word beachballs when I do x..." we'll all know what you mean.
It has the same significance as the wait cursor in Windows: Word is waiting
for the system, but when the beachball appears, it will usually wait forever
(it has "hung"...)
I think you have a corrupt document, and I would Maggie it:
The Maggie:
1. Create a new blank document
2. Carefully select all of the text in the bad document EXCEPT the last
paragraph mark
3. Copy it.
4. Paste in the new document.
5. Save under a new file name and close all, then re-open.
This technique for de-corrupting is known as "Doing a 'Maggie'", after
Margaret Secara from the TECHWR-L mailing list, who first publicised the
technique.
Hope this helps
cybertaz:
1- first of all this non stop spinning disk does it only on one document, word
works fine with the others.
2- no matter what word file i open (the one which causes problem or any other)
and whether I open normally or while holding shift key i always get a message
box which tells me there is a problem with database. i go to database utility
and repair the database; then a message tells me that database has been
repaired.
3- I start word again and the same message of database problem reappears, as
if i had not "repaired" the database.
4- I ignore the message and open the file which caused problem before and the
same disk reappears and turns endlessly.
5- i updated office:mac this morning (it is now afternoon in europe). how do i
find the level of update?
note: how do you remove properly a program?
thanks
jacques
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