Word closes when I hit return

[Jackie D]

Can someone throw some light on this odd problem?

I'm using XP Home and tables in Word 2003 with track changes switched on.
When I click in one particular cell, the research pane opens on the left of
the screen. Then when I hit return in the cell, the document closes. I have
no idea what is going on. I'm hoping somebody out there does!

 

[Klaus Linke]

Hi Jackie,

The table seems to be "corrupt" (which often is just some weird combination
of settings that the developers didn't expect, and that Word can't handle).

To "de-corrupt" the table, I'm afraid you'll have to convert it to
(tab-delimited) text, then back to table, and reapply any (table)
formatting.
Hope the table wasn't terribly complex (merged cells, borders and shading,
....)?

Regards,
Klaus

 

[Klaus Linke]

Before you rebuild the table, you could try if accepting all changes in the
table gets rid of the corruption?

Klaus

 

[Jackie D]

Hi Klaus

Accepting the changes did get rid of the corruption. When I reopened it
everything was back to normal. Thanks for your help