Word Word 2007 - Inserting Caption Renders Document Useless, Uneditable

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AAm I the only one to have ever come across this problem? I actually find that it is repeatable and here is how I managed to do it.

Step 1 - Under the insert tab click on the "Picture" to insert a picture. In case it is important the picture I am inserting is a .png file.

Step 2 - Press Enter to insert a space below the picture that has just been inserted.

Step 3 - Under the references tab click on insert caption.

Now this is where things get interesting because Word has to think hard about this one. By the time the Caption dialog box shows up so that I can tell it what kind of caption etcetera, the document I was working in appears to have vanished except for a few thin verticle lines off to the side.

Step 4 - Hit cancel.

Everything is gone, however hitting ctrl-z does restore the document so that at least now it is viewable. The trouble is that clicking anywhere in the document now results in the cursor going back to the beginning of the document. On top the document now being basically useless, with rare exception, all of the options under all of the tab menus (Home, Insert, Page Layout, etc.) are no longer highlighted! I cannot use any of them.

Worse, I cannot figure out how to restore my document to the point before I inserted the picture!

Any ideas about what is going on and how I can fix/avoid this problem?

Thanks,
Jeremy
 

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