WD97: Cannot Cancel Find Record Search

ID: Q196437

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you click the Find Record button to search for a particular record in a mail merge document, pressing ESC to end the search may have no effect.

NOTE: The status bar shows the message "Press ESC to cancel". However, pressing ESC may not cancel the search.

WORKAROUND

There is no workaround for this problem. You must wait until Word is finished searching the data records.

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 winword word97 kbmerge
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug