Word is stuck, can't click

[livemusic]

I think this is Word 2007; it could possibly be 2010. I can't check because I can't click on ANYthing, it just dings a bell. I have 16 files open and about a dozen are not saved, they are doc01, doc02, etc. Some of these say "autosaved" but some do not. So, I am fearing I might lose something if I do a hard reboot. If I do ctrl-w to close an open doc that IS saved, it dings at me. If I do ctrl-F4, it does not ding. But neither close the doc. How can I get Word to react. Clicking on anything whatsoever does not work.

[Stefan Blom]

A dialog box may be open but positioned outside the visible area of the screen. Try pressing ESC and see what happens.


If that fails, close any other open programs (except Word), right-click the Windows taskbar and choose one of the Cascade options. See if that brings anything into view that you can close.

[livemusic]

Thanks for the suggestion. After I made this post, I had opened Word again by clicking on a .doc file in Explorer. It still did not make the other one work right. I continued to use the second version for another day. Today, when I went into the original open version of Word, everything worked, and I don't know why! But, anyway, it's working. Might be a memory issue, as I had a lot of stuff open.