Microsoft word for mac crashes when saving

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You cannot use Spaces with Office 2008 - Office simply will not work reliably with Spaces. Use the 'Open' menu item instead of double-clicking the document

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Save to the desktop and then copy to the network volume (Preferred)ĭisable any scanning by anti-virus programs (Note - Do not remove the AV program, just turn off 'on-access' scanning) Saving to a network volume from within an Office application Font Doctor can diagnose font problems in demonstration mode (but not move them). Possible Fix: Isolate troublesome fonts by moving them out of the font folder. Word crashes repeatedly caused by corrupt fonts Possible Fix: Create a new user account, launch Word (should start normally if the above file is the cause of the crashes), then copy the new dotm file over the corrupt one. First if your machine cant handle Windows. Word crashes repeatedly caused by a corrupt file ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/Normal.dotm Now for those of us that Microsoft affectionately calls Unmanaged that is those of us that us Microsoft update. any file in that directory that starts with com.microsoft (reputed to mostly work) Word (Excel,PowerPoint,Entourage) works just once after installation, then on subsequent starts it errors out with the usual 'Report to Microsoft' dialogue.įix: Remove these files: ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.* - i.e.