Re: Left mouse click does not work in Word

*** Swager wrote:
Thanks Jay. Removed the Settings key and that fixed it.

Excellent!

But shouldn't an uninstallation have removed those registry keys also?

No, Office is different from most packages in that uninstalling it doesn't
remove some registry entries or the Normal template. The developers'
assumption is that if you uninstall the program, you may plan to reinstall
it and you wouldn't want to lose whatever customizations you had before --
but that doesn't take into account that lots of people uninstall because
they're trying to cure a problem caused by corruption of exactly those
elements.

*** Swager wrote:
I posted this question under General, but it should probably be
asked here instead.

I have Office Home and Student 2007 on a Windows Vista machine.
When I am using Word the left mouse click does nothing. Also when
I close the application it crashes every time. The document is
saved though. I do not have this problem with any of the other
Office applications.

I have removed and reinstalled the Office package and I have
installed all of the updates but this did not cure the problem.

How can I fix this problem?

This problem has been reported many times in the newsgroups. For
example, read
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.word.application.errors/browse_thread/thread/7acb2108423c4023/db585d56149fd803?hl=en&lnk=st&q=#db585d56149fd803.

The solution for most people has been to delete Word's Data key in
the registry and let Word rebuild it. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm for
instructions, and note that the version number for Word 2007 is
"12.0".


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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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