You will not be able to undo this action once it is completed. (2

[Rojo26]

When I select two non-consecutive blocks of text (usually two quote marks),
and attempt to highlight them by clicking the Highlight button, I get the
message,
"Word has encountered a problem. You will not be able to undo this action
once it is completed. Do you want to continue?"

If I select each block seperately and click the Highlight button for each,
everything works fine.

There is nothing in the KB or in these communities about this, although
there are some similar errors from earlier versions of Word that don't apply
to my problem.

Anybody have an idea?

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

If you ignore the message, does Word highlight the non-contiguous blocks? Or
does that aspect fail to work?

Does this happen with *any* two blocks, or only when they are really large?
For example, if you select two non-contiguous words, does the warning
message still appear?

 

[Rojo26]

I'm editing a book chapter, and although I don't think it will cause a
problem, I don't want to take the chance of making a change that cannot be
undone. So I click No (I don't want to continue).

The blocks I was trying, as I said earlier, were all two non-consecutive
quote marks, so the blocks were single characters. When I tried again just to
replicate the error message for my post, I selected two non-consecutive parts
of words, so although the blocks were still small, they were bigger than two
quote marks.

When I first started editing the document yesterday, the first several times
I tried to highlight the two quote marks, I had no trouble. At a later point,
the trouble started.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

So... you're saying that it now happens every time... or that when you try
to replicate, it doesn't happen?

Assuming it occurs every time...

What versions of Word and Windows are you using?

Does the warning occur if you start Word in safe mode or using the /a
switch?

It sounds like a memory/resource issue. Does it persist if you reboot?