why does my doc flash orange in the task bar?

[dvasquez]

some one sent me an email and when i went to save it in a word format it
started to blink orange in the task bar.

when i hit the help button the window to save appeared.

why does it not just go straight to the save window?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See “The Word title bar flashes or the Word program becomes unresponsive
when Word is runningâ€
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=812075