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Drag-and-drop editing is disabled when a modeless dialog box is on the screen. The mouse pointer changes to a circle with a slash through it if you attempt to drag and drop while the modeless dialog box is open.
(NOTE: "Modeless" means that while the dialog is on the screen, you can click in the text area and continue editing.)
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Close the modeless dialog box before performing drag-and-drop editing.
One of the enhancements to Word 6.0 for Windows is that many of the dialog boxes are modeless. Examples of these dialog boxes are the Edit Find, Edit Goto, and Spelling dialog boxes.
If a modeless dialog box is on the screen, then drag-and-drop editing is not allowed. To indicate that the feature is temporarily unavailable, the mouse pointer arrow changes to a circle with a slash through the middle when you attempt a drag-and-drop action. As soon as the dialog box is closed, drag-and-drop editing is available again.
"Microsoft Word User's Guide," version 6.0, page 41
KBCategory: kbusage kbprb KBSubcategory: Additional query words: winword 6.0c 7.0 word95 word6 word7 word97
Keywords : kbualink97
Version : 6.0 6.0a 6.0c 7.0 97
Platform : WINDOWSLast Reviewed: February 5, 1998