inserting text crashing VW

[Jim_Allen]

Is there a limit to the amount of text you can copy and paste into VW? I am trying to paste a block of text into VW Spotlight and it keeps crashing.

[Guest]

What's the error message?

Please make sure you've gone through the troubleshooting steps here:

http://techboard.nemetschek.net/ubbthrea...age=0#Post77493

[Jim_Allen]

Post 77493 - everything seems to be in order.

I tried a blank document - same problem. If I only copy and paste part of the document at at time it will insert fine, if I try the whole page it crashes with this mseeage -

"VectorWorks has encountered a problem and needs to close...."

[Guest]

What type of file are you copying from?

[Jim_Allen]

MS Word

[Guest]

and how much text are you copying?

Are there any special formatting options enabled in the word document?

[Jim_Allen]

It is one page of text. Nothing special in the formating.

I just opend a page in Word, wrote the info, and tried to copy and paste it. I will email you the page tonight.

[Jonathan Pickup]

copy the text in two parts

[Jim_Allen]

I did - in 3 parts. My question was - is there a limit on the amount of text we can import at one time and why VW was carshing instead of saying "You can't do this"

[Guest]

There shouldn't be a problem with this. I suspect there's either a bad character in the word document, something going on in the VW files, or some setting out of whack on the computer.

You are in a situation where almost all the computers are the same, the files are the same - so doing "testing" is challenging.

I didn't get the file, if you sent it.