MS Word 2003 hangs while typing

I have experienced this problem at work.  For me, this "hanging" occurs whenever I work on a document that is on the "L" (network) drive or on the A drive.  To eliminate the "hanging," I save the document to the C drive, then reopen the new "C-drive version" of the file to make sure I'm "completely on C," and then continue working without a hitch.  But then upon completing whatever I'm doing, I have to remember to save the file back to the network drive if that is necessary.

This may or may not apply to you.  Best of luck with this.  I know my solution seems a little complex, but it makes *me* happy. <laughing>

Response for Kelly - I'm not on a network...When I installed Windows, I partitioned the 160 gig hard drive into c and d drives and I installed the operating system, etc., on c and all my work files go to d.

Response for SheharyaarSaahil - I booted to safe mode and the problem went away.....no hanging hourglass and no delay.  So what is the problem?

means in Normal Mode there is any background service or application runnning that is causing this problem....
to confirmt his goto Start>Run>msconfig>Startup
and click on Disable All
reboot and dont connect to internet right now
just Open Word and check for the problem
if NO then u can re-enable each application at a time and can trace out the culprit one !!!!!

post back the results :)

Thanks for the advice...unfortunately, while I had not tried Word in "Safe" mode, I forgot to mention I had disabled all the startup programs using msconfig......no difference and Word still hangs.  I also used the CNTRL key when I started word (started it in safe mode and disabled the macros, etc.)..no difference.  Any other thoughts?

Bill....please check your video drivers...

I've already installed the latest drivers for the ATI Radeon card.  Hmmmm....let me check and see if Word hangs with just VGA drivers.  Thanks.

I tried just the VGA drivers with no change...word still hangs.  To see if it was a setting in my log on account, I then logged off my account (it's an Administrator account) and logged onto the Administrator account.  Word quit hanging and behaves normally.  So it's got to be a setting in my account but I'll be darned if I know what it is. Any thoughts?

means either there is a damage Word Related file in ur C:\Documetns and Settings\username folder,,,,, or there is either a corrupted registry in ur HKEY_CURRENT_USER folder !!!!

if u want u can try a Detect and Repair on Word to check if it can repair the damage file\registry or not ??

I already tried the detect and repair utility...no change.  I guess I'll have to delete my account profile and create another one and see if that solves the problem.

hmmmmmmm u can do that in the following way also....

How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;811151

Thanks for all the help......even the support template did not help....so I concluded that the problem must have been a corrupted WindowsXP Pro registry.  I formatted the hard drive and reloaded everything.  There are no problems now and Word and Outlokk work great.

Glad you got it resolved Bill!  Thank you!