Then let the wheel take up the fiber as you begin to draft more fiber. Slide the drafting hand toward the bundle of fiber, and draft some more fiber to be spun. Be careful not to allow the twist to travel to the fiber in your fiber hand. You may want to stop spinning, draft, then spin, then stop and draft some more. Whether MacOS is giving you a spinning beach ball of death, or iTunes is taking too long to close (again), sometimes you just need to immediately close an app on MacOS.

Hi Greg - That's one of the pitfalls of copying stuff from the web - you never know what you might wind up with & it may even vary based on your browser. If the wheel is still spinning after all this time the only remedy is to use the Force Quit option of OS X. [Make sure to submit the error report if prompted to do so.] With any luck the document will reopen when you launch Word again based on the AutoRecover Data feature of Word. Assuming it does so it would then be a good idea to do a Save As to create a new file based on its content. Hopefully you won't lose anything you had done prior to the attempted pasting. HTH :>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 3/1/09 4:29 PM, in article 59b6e38a.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, John McGhie 1/3/2009, 15:34 น.

Hi Greg: There's 'nothing' you can do about this. When you 'paste' material from a different code structure into a document, a whole lot of things happen very fast while Word re-expresses the content in the same encoding as the document. It often falls over trying to do this.

I got into the habit of 'Save Before Surgery' many years ago. So I still get the beach-balls, I just don't lose data doing it:-) You could suggest that Microsoft should make its product a little more robust. We have suggested this. It hasn't happened yet. Sorry about that. On 2/03/09 8:29 AM, in article 59b6e38a.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, ' wrote: -- Don't wait for your answer, click here: Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac Sydney, Australia.

Officially, it’s called the Spinning Wait Cursor or the Spinning Disc Pointer. Colloquially, it goes by many names, including the Spinning Beach Ball. Whatever you call it, the colorful pinwheel that replaces your mouse cursor is not a welcome sight.

According to Apple's, 'the spinning wait cursor is displayed automatically by the window server when an application cannot handle all of the events it receives. If an application does not respond for about 2 to 4 seconds, the spinning wait cursor appears.' ( is the background process that runs the Mac OS X graphical user interface.) Which is to say, the beachball is there to tell you your Mac is too busy with a task to respond normally. Usually, the pinwheel quickly reverts to the mouse pointer. When it doesn’t go away, it turns into what some call the Spinning Beach Ball of Death (also known as the SBBOD or the Marble of Doom). At times like those, it helps to know why the thing appears and what you can do to make it go away.