I was scanning in a manuscript for something that I wrote years ago. I have a paper copy of the manuscript but lost the Word file for it years ago so I was using an OCR program and Word to recreate the file. Scanning was a slow process. While I could acquire the text, I lost all of the formatting and had to do some editing here and there.
Things were coming along fine. I got about 140 pages scanned when my Word program starting crashing for no apparent reason. It's enough to drive a person crazy! I lost another day making several attempts to repair the program using that feature/ option on the installation menu. Nothing has worked. How can a program work perfectly for years and then all of a sudden screw up like this? I have had all sorts of problems since my PC crashed last fall. I think it may be time to reformat the hard drive but I cannot do that until tomorrow. That has to do with my anti-virus software. I cannot reinstall it without their assistance because they show all of my licenses as used and won't let me reinstall unless I call them.