WM2003+ Pocket Word users, beware!

Unfortunately, these two Pocket Word versions have one thing in common: they both crash if you enter too large paragraphs and then, enter ->. Then, all your work will be gone.

This means, to be on the safe side, you should never enter the -> combinations while typing in Pocket Word! Word crashed on me several times before this and a lot of my work has, therefore, gone lost; this is why I started investigating the case.

Just give it a try enter any sentences (for example, “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.”) some times (use copy/paste) and then, enter -> (you can enter a space before it). If you’ve copied the sentence enough times, Word will immediately crash, killing all your work. (Note that the bug will come out with any kind of text in any language.)

This will the case with all the WM2003 and WM2003SE Pocket PC’s. I’ver even tested this on freshly hard reset PPC’s – they all will crash.

I’ve also checked this on my Jornada 720 and Pocket PC 2000 E-125. They aren’t affected by the bug: it seems to be WM2003-specific. (I didn’t have the chance to test this on PPC2k2 devices.)