Word Won't Select

[Newseditor]

Hello all. I hope someone can help me out here.

For some reason, when I have my Word 2007 and a document open, I cannot
select any text within the document when using my mouse. And it's with all
documents, even documents that I didn't have any problems with before.

I don't know why all of a sudden this happened but if someone can please
give me a few pointers on fixing this, I would greatly appreciate it.

 

[Terry Farrell]

The Word Data Key is corrupt: usually this is caused by Word being active
when an update is installed. You need to run Regedit, navigate to the key
and whilst DATA is selected, press Delete. Word will create a new key when
it is restarted.

Word Data Key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Data

 

[Newseditor]

Thanks Terry. You are right, when my laptop was in sleep mode, Word was
active and there was an update, which meant that when I opened my computer,
it was restarted.

For some reason, the problem corrected itself but I'm saving your
information for future use.

Thank you again for your help!