Word 2007 PROBLEM!

[Timesobserver]

Hello all,

I have a bit of a problem that I noticed earlier. For some reason, when I have my Word 2007 and a document open, I cannot select any text within the document when using my mouse.

I don't know why all of a sudden this happened but if someone can please give me a few pointers on fixing this, I would greatly appreciate it.

[JHamilton]

I am having the exact same problem. I installed Win 7 RC a couple of weeks ago and have been using it successfully with Word 2007 but for the past couple of days I can not select text within the document with the mouse. Using the keyboard to select works fine. I also CAN click on tool bars, buttons, dialog boxes...just no clicking or right clicking within the text pane of the Word app.

Any ideas?

[Timesobserver]

Originally Posted by JHamilton

I am having the exact same problem. I installed Win 7 RC a couple of weeks ago and have been using it successfully with Word 2007 but for the past couple of days I can not select text within the document with the mouse. Using the keyboard to select works fine. I also CAN click on tool bars, buttons, dialog boxes...just no clicking or right clicking within the text pane of the Word app.

Any ideas?

As a matter of fact, I do. I found this great information from another forum by someone who works with Microsoft office a lot. This is what he told me to do and it worked great:

.hmmessage P {margin:0px;padding:0px;} body.hmmessage {font-size:10pt;font-family:メイリオ;} The Word Data Key is corrupt: usually this is caused by Word being active
when an update is installed. You need to run Regedit, navigate to the key
and whilst DATA is selected, press Delete. Word will create a new key when it is restarted.

Word Data Key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\W ord\Data

So, all you have to do is this:

• Run Regedit (Registry Editor. I just did a search for regedit on my computer and it popped up. Then open the following folders
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER
• SOFTWARE
• MICROSOFT
• OFFICE
• 12.0
• WORD
• DATA (Select data and delete it.)

I hope this helps you out. I was a little nervous doing it at first and after the second time it happened, I decided to do. And it worked just great!

Best of luck!

[JHamilton]

Thanks Time Observer. YOUR SOLUTION WORKED GREAT!!!!

[Timesobserver]

I'm glad it did. It's nice to be able to help someone out everyone once in awhile.