MS Word 2007 hangs

Use a newer computer and see if that helps.

Dan

Or download open office and see if you can open in that, you might be surprised.

Thanks for the comments and suggestions, I will check in later after further testing.

Is the file a doc or a docx? I guess it depends on how the document was saved if you were using MS word 2007 to open it, but then Office 2007 and 2010 are backwards compatible so they should be able to open doc documents. It is strange why this would happen suddenly.

It has 3300 pages!

It is strange it did not happened earlier :)

Word is famous for its ease of use, not stability, especially with large files.

I don't know if it is strange - tis buggy though.  I can't remember the specifics of the issue but I had a document with content controls.  Once I accidentally on purpose moved one content control into a picture content control - the document seemed to behave noramlly until I tried to open it.  At the time I had crashed the document by some action that I was unaware of.  To recover it I resorted to editing one of the XML files (docx, docm, dotx, dotm are all containers like a zip file*) and delete the offending portion of the document from there... It was a while ago and I was flying blind (I had a backup copy) but once the misplaced content control was deleted the document worked fine.

I doubt I would enjoy trawling through 3000+ pages worth of XML though.  

Seriously give open office a whirl...

OR... rename the file "file.docx" to "file.zip" and have a look inside.  You might be able to recover from there.

Cheers,

Still working this issue.