Problems with Word 5.0 in Windows 3.0

• Microsoft Windows operating system versions 3.0, 3.0a

SYMPTOMS

When you start version 5.0 of Microsoft Word for MS-DOS in a Microsoft Windows version 3.00 window, you may get the following error message:

   You cannot run this application while other high-resolution
   applications are running fullscreen. The application will be
   suspended until a low-resolution or text application is running
   fullscreen. Check the PIF settings to ensure they are correct.

CAUSE

If you have tried to start Word in a window and have received this error message, you probably exited Word when you were in a mode other than 25-line text mode.

WORKAROUND

To close the window, do the following:

1. From the Hyphen menu, Select "Settings...".

2. Click Full Screen.

3. Once the application has switched to fullscreen, you may use ALT+Q to exit.

MORE INFORMATION

If Word is started in a fullscreen and then reduced to a window, you do not receive the error message; however, you are unable to edit or access the Word menu. Microsoft Word version 5.0 can only run in a window when it is in 25-line text mode. You receive the above error message when you start Word 5.0 in a window and it is in graphics mode (or in 43- or 50-line text mode). If you start Word in a fullscreen, then reduce it to a window in any mode other than 25-line text mode, you experience symptoms such as a frozen double mouse cursor and an inability to call up the Word menu.

NOTE: Print preView is a graphics screen. This is true regardless of the display mode in which you are running Word. As a result, Word stops responding (hangs, or locks up) and gives you the above error message if you attempt to use Print preView while running the application in a window.

Solution

Press ESC, ALT+ENTER to exit to a workable fullscreen display.