Word 2007 Find command does not respond

[Dr. Dave]

Almost every time I use the Find command, it does not respond and I have to
close the program. I see that others have the same problem. I there no way
to find out how to solve the problem?! I just updated to Word 2007! Why
did I bother?!

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Dave,

What is the build version of Word 2007 under
Office Button=>Word Options=>Resources?

What is the specific term you're looking for in Find?

Can you use the 'Esc' key to stop the find and return to the document?

Do you have automatic hyphenation turned on?

Do you have both left-to-right and right-to-left languages enabled in Word 2007 and if so do you have them mixed within the same
paragraph?

Is the problem with any document or only certain ones?

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Almost every time I use the Find command, it does not respond and I have to
close the program. I see that others have the same problem. I there no way
to find out how to solve the problem?! I just updated to Word 2007! Why
did I bother?! <<
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Dr. Dave]

Yes to all your questions: I have both Hebrew and English activated and they
occur in the same paragraphs, the trouble happens when I look for a Hebrew
word in only a few documents, the Esc key returns me to the document and
auto-hyphenate is turned on. Interestingly, the find function works fine if
I start from the end of the document and search up!!
Thanks .

 

[Dr. Dave]

sorry that I overlooked the first paragraph of your reply. I don't know
what a build version is. pressing Office Button=>Word Options=>Resources
shows a window with a number of choices, under the last choice of "about
Microsoft Word 2007" is written Microsoft Office Word 2007
(12.0.6311.5000)SP1MSO(12.0.6213.1000). Is that what you mean?

 

[Dr. Dave]

I haven't heard a response from you so maybe you think everything's okay,
but the find function still doesn't work when I'm searching for a Hebrew
word.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Dave,

See if the MS Office 2007 Hotfix from
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955587
helps with Find getting 'stuck'. It addresses some of the search issues in Word 2007, but I don't have a way to test that
particular one (searching in Hebrew).

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I haven't heard a response from you so maybe you think everything's okay,
but the find function still doesn't work when I'm searching for a Hebrew
word. >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[HSH]

Hi Dave and Bob,

I have a similar problem with the find and replace program. I regularly
require using the command in arabic documents, but it always keeps on getting
stuck and i have to close and restart the program, the problem not being
solved still. I followed the questions Bob asked but am not clear as to wat
is hanging the program and wat im supposed to do....pls answer

 

[Neil Cumfer]

Microsoft has issued a hotfix to solve certain problems
that cause the find and replace dialog box to get stuck.

It fixes more problems than are described in the article ...
I would suggest that you try it
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955587/en-us?FR=1

Another thing you could try is to perform the search starting
at the bottom of the document and searching "up"

 

[Neil Cumfer]

Microsoft has issued a hotfix to solve certain problems
that cause the find and replace dialog box to get stuck.

It fixes more problems than are described in the article ...
I would suggest that you try it
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955587/en-us?FR=1

Another thing you could try is to perform the search starting
at the bottom of the document and searching "up"