[X4U] Weird Word errors

[Scott McCulloch]

The document itself isn't that long, as I'm writing sections as  
separate documents for now, so only about 30-40 pages each at the  
moment.

I'm actually using a custom template (although, I guess the Normal  
template is always included, isn't it?)

I have found that after Word crashes, it's okay again for a while,  
without doing anything else to "fix" the problem.

It was also crashing when doing "find & replace" where there are more  
than a few instances to be replaced.

In any case, having put it off for quite some time, I've now got  
Office 2004 - so we'll see if it makes any difference.

Thanks,
Scott


On Mar 2, 2006, at 10:46 PM, B. Kuestner wrote:

> Most problems with Word on Mac can be traced to a corrupt Normal  
> template, corrupt preferences or font problems.
>
> Try the following
>
> 1) Quit word
> 2) Move your Normal template to another location
> 3) Start Word (it will build a new Normal template)
>
> You will lose the settings that were stored in the Normal template  
> in this process!
>
> You can try the same with preferences and also removing fonts. I  
> have never heard that Word X is generally unstable even with long  
> documents, although that is a problem on Windows. Anyway, how large  
> is your document? Are the problems also showing with other files?  
> Be sure to keep lots of versioned backups of your work at this stage!
>
> Björn