Microsoft KB Archive/64167

Pasting 255+ Characters into Find What Box Causes Hang

PSS ID Number: Q64167 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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In Microsoft Word for the Macintosh version 4.0, if more than 255 characters are pasted into the Find What box for the Change or Find commands, the computer may hang. This appears to be a problem in Apple’s Dialog Manager but has not been confirmed. The problem seems to occur only when Paste is chosen from the Edit menu or the COMMAND+V (Paste) shortcut key combination is pressed.

Word is designed to accept only 255 characters in the Find What box.

For more information about the Find and Change commands, see pages 16-18 and 56 in the “Reference to Microsoft Word” version 4.0 manual.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Word version 4.0. This problem was corrected in Word version 5.0.

KBCategory: kbusage buglist4.00 fixlist5.00 KBSubcategory: Additional reference words: 4.00 5.00 crash stop freeze lock up macword macword5 ====================================================================== ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1997.