Photoshop hangs when selecting text in Microsoft Word
Hi. This is happening too often to be a coincidence and I’m not sure if this is a Photoshop issue or a Microsoft Word issue. But what seems to happen from time to time, only on one of the computers I use for work, is that when I open a Word document off a network drive and make a text selection and copy, Photoshop and (and not any other Adobe app) and Word becomes unresponsive. None of the programs ever crash, they just seem to hang endlessly. Only when I force-close Word does Photoshop become responsive again.
I’m not sure what can consistently cause it, but when it does happen, it makes it very difficult to work with because I’m copying and pasting often and it actively stops me from doing that. This has happened on and off for months.
Here is some basic system info:
Adobe Photoshop Version: 27.11.0 20260929.r.26 8c16e56 x64 (final, Release)
Number of Launches: 163
Operating System: Windows 11 64-bit
Version: 11 or greater 10.0.26100.9711
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:5, Stepping:2, AVX2, AVX-VNNI, HybridCPU(6:10)
Physical processor count: 16
Processor speed: 3686 MHz
Built-in memory: 32213 MB
Free memory: 20649 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 24746 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 70 %
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU UNKNOWN, NVIDIA
Intel(R) Arc(TM) 140T GPU (16GB) UNKNOWN, INTEL
IsNativeGPUCapable: 1
IsOpenCLGPUCapable: 1
HasSufficientRAM: 1
GPU accessible RAM: 7,951 MB
Required GPU accessible RAM: 1,500 MB
UseGraphicsProcessorChecked: 1
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