Re: Conditional hyphens can cause Word 2007 SP1 Find & Replace to

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Hi Bob,

Thanks for fooling around with it.

As a workaround for this particular file, I can replace every space
character in the document with another space (I use ^0032 in the find
box and a space in the replace box). That seems to temporarily remove
the corruption in the dialog box and can be followed by a successful
replacement of ^p^w

I have also discovered that the escape key will restore order (might
have to wait a couple of second), but if you click on the Cancel button
or the X in the upper right corner, that title bar of the dialog box
will change to Not Responding ... I guess the reports have been
misleading because it is not actually Word that is hanging but the
dialog box

I have been using ^p^w for years and never had a problem with it until
Service Pack 1 for Word 2007

I think we might have explored this bug as far as anybody on the outside
can go ... of course, all you readers are welcome to prove me wrong :-)

Neil


"Bob Buckland ?:-)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com>
wrote in message news:e1hLDTQ4IHA.2332@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Neil,

Yes, in those files I do get the issue. Word 2007 has trouble, going
into a 100% CPU, use when the Replace dialog looks for two
consecutive formatting code sequences, such as ^p^p or ^p^w

It can usually handle either of those separately but not the pair in
some cases. That was the case here,
http://www.scstatehouse.net/reports/hupdate/8n17.doc
but so far none of the previous workarounds (i.e. replace ^p with ^&
or first replacing ^p with text such as 'FRED', then do the
^p^w or FRED^w replace) has worked on that file, even when saved as
XML, so I'm still looking at them and hopefully others might do
so as well. :)

The dialog doesn't hang the system for me (i.e. while it won't respond
to the mouse trying to close the dialog it does seem to
respond to cancelling by the Esc key in most cases) and eventually the
progress dialog on the bottom of the screen does start to
creep forward.

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<<"Neil Cumfer" <nsc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OTdJP2D4IHA.2336@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Bob,

The problem started immediately after installing Service Pack 1 ...
since it doesn't happen to everybody, it could be a faulty install,
but
Microsoft won't let you reinstall or uninstall the service pack. I
have
repaired the entire installation of Office 2007 to no avail.

Also, the problem manifests itself in safe mode.

I don't think the right-to-left languages are involved, my only
enabled
language is English (US).

In my mind, the problem is that the Find and Replace dialog box is in
a
corrupt state. The service pack attempted to fix many problems with
various languages ... maybe a certain language has to be installed in
order for the service pack to install correctly.

My build is Word 2007 (12.0.6212.1000) SP1 MSO (12.0.6213.1000)
(hmm I see that the service pack is for 6213 but I have 6212)

You can download a .doc file from our website
http://intranet.scstatehouse.net/reports/hupdate/hupdate.htm ... just
about any link in the "2008 Issues" section (the May 6 issue is one of
the shortest
http://intranet.scstatehouse.net/reports/hupdate/8n17.doc).

These documents don't have hyphens but they do have paragraphs
beginning
with tabs and Word freezes (for me) when I try to replace ^p^w with ^p

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Neil >>
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*



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