Any way to unfreeze one Word document?

Sesquipedalian Sam

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Aug 6, 2010, 1:19:20 PM8/6/10

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I did something that was not too smart. I pasted 60,000 lines from a
tab-delimited text file into Word 2007 intending to convert it into a
table for sorting. I should have used Excel.

Anyway, Word is now "frozen". All I get is the hour-glass cursor and
"(Not Responding)" in the title bar.

If i click on the X icon to close it, I get the message the Office
Recovery message about forcing Word and losing data. I don't care
about the data in that document, but I have 5-6 other documents open.
They are all "Not Responding", so if I force one I force them all.

Is there any way to force just the one document and leave the others
intact so I can save before closing?

Stefan Blom

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Aug 6, 2010, 3:26:53 PM8/6/10

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I'm afraid that Windows will close the Word session, so you are likely to lose
all data in other open documents up to the point where those documents were last
saved.

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Sesquipedalian Sam

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Aug 6, 2010, 4:18:39 PM8/6/10

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On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 21:26:53 +0200, "Stefan Blom"
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>I'm afraid that Windows will close the Word session, so you are likely to lose
>all data in other open documents up to the point where those documents were last
>saved.

That's what I was afraid of, so I let it run for awhile. After about
45 minutes, it finally unfroze and I was able to close the offending
document. The rest were OK.

bj

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Aug 6, 2010, 10:17:48 PM8/6/10

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Maybe it was just having trouble choking down so much paste-in at once?
rather than actually "frozen"?

Sometimes I think something is "frozen" when actually it's just busy
digesting whatever I've told it to do. Good time to go do the chores, take a
walk, have dinner.....and try to remember not to do *that* again -- or at
least plan the timing better. :-)
bj

Stefan Blom

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Aug 7, 2010, 12:53:55 PM8/7/10

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I'm glad you got it sorted. :-)

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Stefan Blom

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Aug 7, 2010, 1:28:24 PM8/7/10

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Apparently, Word was just "digesting" in this case.

I suspect that most of us wouldn't have the patience to wait, the way you did...

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Sesquipedalian Sam

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Aug 7, 2010, 5:23:28 PM8/7/10

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On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 19:28:24 +0200, "Stefan Blom"
<Stefa...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Apparently, Word was just "digesting" in this case.
>
>I suspect that most of us wouldn't have the patience to wait, the way you did...

Well, I don't think bj waited, but I could be wrong. I waited because
I had several other documents and, at that point, I wasn't even quite
sure which ones they were, let alone what changes I might have made
and not saved.

Stefan Blom

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Aug 8, 2010, 8:19:24 AM8/8/10

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> Well, I don't think bj waited [...]

No, sorry, my reply was for you, not for "bj."

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