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July 30, 2008
Snag-It tangling with Microsoft Word 2007
It seems that certain plug-ins and templates into Microsoft Office can cause Microsoft word to be unable to select text with the mouse and have it crash on exit. I'm grateful to the posting Annoying Word 2007 problem: can’t select text for helping me to understand and solve the problem.
First disable the add-ons in word using regedit:
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Word\Addins
Then change the value of the LoadBehavior key from 3 to 0 for each add-in.
That should take care of the selection problem. Then to solve the crash on exit, Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Data, rename this key to Old_Data.
and Restart Word.
The problem plug-ins and templates all appear to be from Snag-It, an otherwise excellent application for taking screen shots in windows. If you use that application, avoid installing the plug-in functionality.
Posted by OneEyedMan at July 30, 2008 12:18 PM
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