WORD Freezes

[T. Lang]

Heres my stiuation

Operating System: XP Professional with Office X
Using Mail Merge, Word will freeze while trying to locate a datafile. I run Ctrl + ALT Delete and try to end the application, then click the end now button and the Word window will remain open open but it states that it is not responding. I try to run the Ctrl + ALT Delete again and again and the same thing (or nothing happens). Then when I try to access My Computer from the Start Menu, a FLASHLIGHT looks in the My Documents folder and just searches. I have to then turn the computer off to fix the problem or I should say temporarily fix the problem until I try the Mail Merge datafile retrieval again.

Can anyone in this newsgroup tell me why that is happening or how to fix that problem

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Are you using some type of automation to locate the datafile or are you
doing it manually?

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Heres my stiuation:

Operating System: XP Professional with Office XP
Using Mail Merge, Word will freeze while trying to locate a datafile. I

run Ctrl + ALT Delete and try to end the application, then click the end now
button and the Word window will remain open open but it states that it is
not responding. I try to run the Ctrl + ALT Delete again and again and the
same thing (or nothing happens). Then when I try to access My Computer from
the Start Menu, a FLASHLIGHT looks in the My Documents folder and just
searches. I have to then turn the computer off to fix the problem or I
should say temporarily fix the problem until I try the Mail Merge datafile
retrieval again.