Repair Your Disk Permissions
The Problem:
Word starts okay and lets me work for a whilebut then it crashes without so much as an "¡Hasta la vista, Baby!"
The Solution:
What's probably wrong is that your disk permissions have become damaged, preventing Word from writing to some of the files or folders that it needs to be able to use. Start by repairing your disk permissions:
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Quit Word if it hasn't already quit itself.
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Click the Desktop to activate the Finder, open the Utilities folder (choose Go
Utilities, or choose Go Applications and then double-click the Utilities folder), and then double-click Disk Utility to open it. -
Click the entry for your hard disk, click the First Aid tab, and then click the Repair Disk Permissions button.
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When the repair is complete, restart Mac OS X.
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If repairing your disk permissions doesn't resolve this problem, try the steps in the next Annoyance. You can also try updating your copy of Word (or Office) with the latest update available.