You highlight text as normal, then go to drag it, but get a small "no symbol" (ie, a circle with a diagonal line through it as in the screen dump with this post) where your cursor should be.
I have struck this issue a couple of times in documents where I have imported text from elsewhere and am cleaning it up. I have found that if I saved the document, closed out, and then went back in, the problem would have self-corrected.
What I hadn't realised was that I had caused the problem in the first place.
How? Thanks to Kevin Stagner (9 April 2011) I now know that I had the "Find & Replace" dialogue box open. That seems to stop you being able to drag text.
As soon as you close that dialogue box, the problem stops. When I found that closing out of Word halted the problem, I was inadvertently closing the dialogue box on the way.
There is always learning!
Sam
- Reference: Stagner, Kevin (9 April 2011). In word 2010, I can't drag, drop or paste where I want; are there settings I need to change? Retrieved 21 January 2017 from https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-mso_other/in-word-2010-i-cant-drag-drop-or-paste-where-i/b3e20065-d062-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5
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