having looked at a previous post about Word freezing, I re-installed Word 2013 on my win-7-64-pro system only to find that my problem persists.

It is probably due to the fact that I am editing a document of 148,000 words. I am removing paragraph marks that are at the end of each line in this document. I am then inserting just the few paragraph marks, needed each page, to mark the paragraph ends.



I am using a paragraph style with a first-line indent. What happens is that I'll hit the Enter key to insert a paragraph mark, but then Word freezes such that, although the cursor is still blinking at the start of the new paragraph, I am unable to move the mouse pointer on to the Word window, i.e., it has disappeared. About 45 seconds later, the fault clears and I am again able to continue until the fault appears again, say, 15 minutes later.

I have tried things with a document of half the size, and the fault persists.

I have found a work-around to the above problem:

Instead of leaving the cursor at the paragraph start (0.5 cm indented), and thus tempting the freeze problem, I now hit the End key after Enter so that the cursor ends elsewhere, namely, at the end of the line. This seems to avoid the problem occuring.

This work-around is okay, but it is a matter of time before I accidentally hit the Delete key in error!

At the top of this forum is a 'Sticky' thread, titled Cleaning up Text Pasted from Websites, E-mails, PDFs etc., for cleaning up documents such as you describe: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...s-e-mails.html

In all likelihood the delays you're experiencing are due to Word having to repaginate the document every time you delete a paragraph break. Switching to Draft view and switching off background repagination may help.

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