Word 2019 hangs on saving and exiting

[KDuncan]

A few days ago I posted on problems saving to a flash drive from MS Word 2019. Now the problem has expanded. Saving to the same hard drive from which the file, any file, came, now seems to give me "Not responding." I've not seen a version of Word do this. It did not do this initially. So, I am wondering what changed. I don't recall doing any explicit updates except that Windows wanted to update itself. I have to wonder if that introduced a bug into Word.


Any suggestions? This isa pretty basic function to break. Thanks.