Word 2008 crashes when inserting comments - Please Help!

[nope7308]

When I'm grading students' papers, I insert comments to leave constructive feedback. However, after I grade an x amount of papers, Word 2008 crashes and I lose some of the comments in the open document. It's impossible to predict when Word will crash - sometimes it's after 2 papers, other times it's after 10. I changed the settings so Word saves the document every minute, but I inevitably lose some of my comments. This only seems to occur when I'm grading papers. Sometime it crashes when I try to insert a comment, sometimes it crashes when I try to save the document, and sometimes it crashes for no apparent reason (as I'm reading the essay).

I have no idea what's causing Word to crash. This is extremely frustrating and time consuming, so I would appreciate any/all feedback.

Thanks for your help!

[cricketbird]

The obvious - have you checked for updates to Office? There have been a few stability updates since it was released. in Word, Help > Check for Updates

Some other common fixes:
Delete the normal template. Word will automatically rebuild it.
Delete .plist files for word

When I use MacSpeech Dictate + Word, I get lots of Word crashes. Try not using other software at the same time and see if things improve.

Create a new user account. Log in and do your editing there.
If you have the same problems, it's a problem with your Office install. Try un-installing and re-installing Office.

If the problems go away on the new account, it's probably something going on with your local account. Try deleting preferences and such.

[Peter.L]

Hej!
Try to turn off spell checking and grammar checking under Word - Alternative
For me it was the solution.

Peter