Word XP hangs on subdocument expansion

[tom]

I've got a master document that I've been working on for
couple of years now, with some other members of my team.
It's been getting messier as time goes by, and this last
time I went to make some edits, I noticed that the
bullets were showing up as number lists, and a few other
formatting errors. Checking the formatting, I discovered
these paragraphs were just "Body Text" with secondary
styles, and by assigning a real "Style" to them, I could
fix the problem. So I started on this process. Every now
and then I'd get a "Word is running low on memory, you
will not be able to undo" or even a hang ("stops
responding"). But I could always recover.

Now I'm totally jammed up.

Whenever I attempt to expand the sub-documents, the
application hangs and will not respond. Every time. I've
tried turning off spell-checking. I've tried
the "winword /a" option. I'm not using Speech recognition.

Here's the weird bit. I can take the collectiono fsubdocs
and the master doc to another computer and it'll open
just fine.

There must be a setting or preference on my computer
that's causing the problem. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Tom

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See these articles:

Why Master Documents corrupt
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm

How to recover a Master Document
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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[Guest]

Yes, I've reviewed these documents, an attempted their
fixes. The really odd thing here is that the problme
seems localized to my two machines, and everyone else can
open them just fine.

I've trashed my account and all other account's
normal.dots several times, and removed every macro and
other complicating factor I can think of. Still no luck.

Any other suggestions? Hidden settings areas? Registry
tips (beyond deleting the Data fork?

Please help!

Thanks,

Tom