WD2000: Pasted Text in a Nested Table May Cause Table Corruption

• Microsoft Word 2000

SYMPTOMS

After you paste text copied from a Microsoft Word 97 or earlier document into a nested table, one or more of the following problems may occur:

• The Word 2000 document may endlessly paginate. For example, the page number on the status bar in Word may continually increase.
  
  
• The top two rows of the nested table merge into one row.
  
  
• Six squares are placed at the beginning of the pasted text.
  
  
• The following error message appears:
  
  

  This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.
  
  If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.

  When you click Details, the following error message appears:

  WINWORD caused an invalid page fault in module WINWORD.EXE at 015f:30268ae7.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, paste your text from the Word 97 (or earlier) document as unformatted text, using the following steps:

1. On the Edit menu, click Paste Special.



2. In the Paste Special dialog box, under As, click to select Unformatted Text and then click OK.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words:

Keywords          : kbdta wd2000 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug 

Last Reviewed: May 25, 1999