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Word 2008 crashing every 5 to 10 minutes!!!

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ClassicFitness

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Oct 30, 2006
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Montreal, QC
I know there is many thread on the problems of office 2008, but I could not find any solution to my problem. Like I said in the title, my legal version of office (particularly Word), is crashing every 5 minutes. I just don't know what to do anymore. All the 200mb update are downloaded and it is getting worse and worse. Am I alone with this concern? I'm telling you, it is crashing every 5 minutes. It is insane!!!!:eek:
Does someone know something I could do? I'm working on a Intel Imac.
Thank you
 
You might try deleting the preference folders for office 2008. Especially the one for word.
Are you running anything in the background?

"It's normal for all microsoft programs to do this'':D
 
same problem!

I have the exact same problem... I can't copy-paste anything and sometimes it just crashes when I'm simply typing... I have tried the following:

1) Home folder/Library/Preferences : delete the microsoft folder and startup word again... But; same problem
2) deleted files: ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Word.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.plist
But; same problem

Nothing seams to help! My paper is soon due but I keep loosing everything I'm typing and it's driving me crazy! Please somebody help!
 
Ok so no more WYSIWYG but still having problems... Is it because I'm still typing in old documents (from before the SP1 and removal of WYSIWYG)? Or does Word just really not like me?
 
Hrm, well it doesn't really say me anything... Do you want me to post it here?
 
That would be helpful. Post the entire entry from the last crashlog. Most likely it will be too long to post within a posts, so you should consider posting it as an attachment.
 
What it did for me was uninstalling with the microsoft tool, deleting any file or folder I could find and then installing everything from scratch. That did the trick, but I did some odd stuff like upgradi g from 2004, installi g sp1 then overinstalling a dutch version and upgradi g again to sp1. So i didnt wonder to much about the number of errors i got after that.
 
I installed Word 2008 on my brand new macbook pro not having any other office programs on it before, so probably not the problem... Here's the crashlog
 

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Same file, or have you tried newly created test files?
Does it happen if you're logged in as another user (create one to test)?
 
That was the same file (it's a 30 pages long report and I've tried copy-paste so many times to a new doc but still the problem is the same and I can't just start rewriting the whole thing!)
Actually no problems when I created a new user acount... So do I have to always work logged in as this user or is there another solution?
 
No; I meant that the crashfile was from the 30page doc.
Ok, so now I tried opening the 30page doc in the new user acount and it crashes at once. But writing in a new doc in new user acount works fine. Writing in a new doc in old user acount does'nt work...
 
Ok, so I didn't try opening it up in OpenOffice but I re-installed Word 2004 and now everything is working fine. So if I'm up for it maybe I'll try to re-install Word 2008 some time in the near future, but I doubt it... Thanks for the help
 
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