Word stops responding when you navigate in Internet Explorer if Japanese characters are not determined

When you navigate Microsoft Internet Explorer to another Web site without determining the Japanese characters in your Word document, Microsoft Word 2000 may stop responding.

This problem can occur if all of the following conditions are true:

• You open the Word document in Internet Explorer.
• The document contains Japanese characters that are not determined yet.
• You navigate to another Web site.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2000. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

To work around this problem, follow these steps in Word:

1. On the Tools menu, click Options.
2. Select the Edit tab.
3. Clear the IME TrueInline check box.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

This problem was first corrected in the Word 2000 Update: April 25, 2002.

For more information about troubleshooting invalid page faults and similar error messages in Word, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: