I have a dell latitude locked up on a word document

[thompsonbobbie4]

Help. I'm in the middle of a document I don't want to lose

 

[Alabalcho]

How is your laptop locked up? Does it react (beeps) to plugging of a USB drive? To Ctrl-Alt-Del?

You might lose a little, Microsoft Word saves your work in a recovery file.

 

[mazboy]

If you can get no response from the computer (including by using the three-finger-salute: ctrl-alt-del) then your only choice is to force the laptop off by holding down the power button. But Alabalcho is correct, most if not all of the document should have been saved by Word, and when you click on it to reopen it (after you restart the computer), Word should restore it to its (hopefully) complete original form.