Word 2002 not responding

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LonghornMan

I have a very similar case to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292174, except:

1. I'm using a non-standard style of paragraph numbering, not non-standard
line numbering.

2. There is no error message -- it only stops responding, hourglass, 94-100%
of CPU usage by WinWord.exe.

3. I already have SP3 of Office XP installed (Word 10.6612.6714).

It happens randomly, not when Word opens, and not after X minutes. Spelling
check, grammar and speech recognition are all off.

It is somewhat document related, in that I've only seen it with documents
that use paragraph numbering and cross-references. However, Open/Repair does
not fix it, and it occurs with relatively small documents with few cross
references.

Running Windows XP Pro for Tablet, on Toshiba M200 with 512 MB. It can
occur with only Word running and lots of RAM.

No other PC or logon is running that could have access to the document. No
other application is running, necessarily, when the hang up occurs. The
document is in a folder and is not an attached file to some msg.

It usually recurs within about 45 minutes, but it can go hours or even a day
of editing before it recurs. I'm reduced to making AutoSave occur every 2
minutes, and that way I don't lose much.

Nothing I've seen on this board, on word.mvps.org, or I could find on Google
has helped.

Thanks in advance.
 

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