Word 2003 - Word is Calculating the Word Count

[B. Levien]

I have noticed over the past week that whenever I am in a Word Document, the
"Word is Calculating the Word Count" keeps flashing across the bottom of my
screen every 10 - 15 seconds.

The last update applied to my machine was October 31, 2006. The documents I
am working in do have a Table of Contents as well as an Index.

I noticed as well that if I opened a new document, typed some text, marked
an index entry that the message did not start "flashing" until I saved the
document. This message seems to occur even when it is just plain text and no
formatting. The message starts flashing as soon as I save the document.

What could be causing this message to come up so often?

I also noticed that some of my other settings had changed (one being the
checkbox beside "Typing Replaces Selection" under Tools and Edit tab was
unchecked).

As I did not make any changes to my settings, I'm wondering if one of the
recent updates did it?

Any ideas about why this is happening would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?Qi4gTGV2aWVu?=,

If you start Word in Safe Mode - by holding down the Ctrl key when you start it
- does the problem go away for that Word session?

I have noticed over the past week that whenever I am in a Word Document, the
"Word is Calculating the Word Count" keeps flashing across the bottom of my
screen every 10 - 15 seconds.

The last update applied to my machine was October 31, 2006. The documents I
am working in do have a Table of Contents as well as an Index.

I noticed as well that if I opened a new document, typed some text, marked
an index entry that the message did not start "flashing" until I saved the
document. This message seems to occur even when it is just plain text and no
formatting. The message starts flashing as soon as I save the document.

What could be causing this message to come up so often?

I also noticed that some of my other settings had changed (one being the
checkbox beside "Typing Replaces Selection" under Tools and Edit tab was
unchecked).

As I did not make any changes to my settings, I'm wondering if one of the
recent updates did it?

Any ideas about why this is happening would be greatly appreciated.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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