08-13-2008, 03:30 PM
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MS Office - big freeze - question please
May I ask the PC geeks to help out, please?
 I have all my IDs and Passwords for 30DC listed in table in a Word.doc which I use all day long. Last several days, every time I copy to paste into a web page (via right click or Ctrl C, either one) - Word freezes on me. I've un-installed MS Office and reinstalled - makes no difference. Win XP and new laptop with 1Gb RAM and lots of CPU speed. Any ideas on what I can do, please? Everything grinds to a halt - don't you just LOVE Bill Gates??!! I hope somebody can cast some light on this.
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08-13-2008, 04:29 PM
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Every time you copy text from Word, the text is stored in the "Clipboard", you can copy up to 24 times with the clipboard but If you copy a lot of text each time (like articles, content etc.) the clipboard gets overloaded. Try clearing it after you have pasted the text.
Julien. PS : To clear it you can either go in Edit > Office Clipboard > Clear All, or their is an icon in the systray, right click on that icon and "Clear all" Last edited by Julienh : 08-13-2008 at 04:32 PM.
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08-14-2008, 12:30 AM
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Use google notes like Ed showed in preseason. WOW, saves a ton of open pages.
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08-14-2008, 03:01 AM
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Thank you Julien
and I thought I knew MS Word pretty well.....
 I had been "cleaning" clipboard by copying a blank whatever space and it appeared to be doing the trick (for a few years), but this recent freeze has been happening even with one word pastes - not pages and pages of stuff!! Another person put me onto what "appears" to be the solution - why it works, I don't know but it has solved the issue. I searched for normal.dot on C-drive - deleted the 3 (maybe corrupted) normal.dot files and re-started Word - bingo!! Maybe you know why - I'll continue on in my ignorance - but happy to have the time waster removed from my day. THANK you for your replies - really appreciated. Living and always learning. Bruce
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08-14-2008, 03:29 AM
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Normal.dot is the default document template file for Word. You shouldnt have had 3 of them and also its the preferred file for MS Office specific viruses to get located.
Make sure you do a complete virus scan.
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08-18-2008, 01:08 PM
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Yup you should have only had 1 normal.dot so take Calison`s asdvice.
Go offline, do full system virus scan. Mark
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