Article ID: 194380
Article Last Modified on 10/31/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q194380
SYMPTOMS
After you paste information from PowerPoint 98 to Word, the keyboard response to your typing may become very slow. In addition, you may notice some intermittent character loss and beeping.
RESOLUTION
To correct this problem, obtain the Office 98 Update for Mac OS 8.5. For more information about the Office 98 Update for Mac OS 8.5, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
194430 OFF98: How to Obtain and Install Office 98 Update for Mac OS 8.5
To temporarily work around this problem, close PowerPoint 98 after you paste the information into Word.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition. This problem has been corrected in the Office 98 Update for Mac OS 8.5.
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