Word 2007, student version, won't let me edit documents

L

lovecatswire

I can open documents, that were recently made and are in the queue, but no
foreign documents, i.e. downloaded from a hard drive, internet, etc. The
documents I do open, I cannot properly edit - I can only add on to what was
written or delete from the end and continue that way. No shortcuts, such as
Ctrl-C, Ctrl-A, or anything of the sort, not even arrow keys; the mouse can't
reposition the little cursor or select anything. I can start new documents,
and type fine, but still no editing capabilities as mentioned before. I
uninstalled and reinstalled, nothing. I am up to date with microsoft. I am
using Vista if that helps, but it worked fine when I first installed word, it
just suddenly started acting this way. I looked at the help. The Norton
Internet Security doesn't mess with the word, never did. Also when I close
Word, it says "Office Word has stopped working" it trys to recover but always
just restarts the program with a blank doc. The problem never resolves and I
have to click the "x" in the middle of the message to actually close word,
otherwise it keeps restarting....

I looked at the web and didn't find any help... I read the posts but they do
not seem to address the issue. I tried the different methods of fixing it,
doesn't work.
I have no "~$*.do?" files.... please help....
 
T

Terry Farrell

Exactly the same answer to the previous question above posted by D.

Sounds like the DATA key is corrupt. Run Regedit and navigate until you
expose DATA, select it and press delete. Word will recreate a new key when
it is next started.

Word DataKey

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\version number\Word\Data
 
L

lovecatswire

^_^

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

it finally works again

^_^

I hope you have a wonderful day
 

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