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Printer icon if the driver is installed on the server, then the title bar of The server by going to Start + Settings + Printers and right-clicking on the

#WORD FOR MAC KEEPS OPENING IN OLDER VERSION DRIVERS#

You can tell whether your network printer drivers are installed locally or on

Not when you first open them only Word crashes on startup as a result of this. Note that this scenario can also cause problems for PowerPoint and Excel, but Unfortunately, rather than give a meaningful error message, it just crashes! On the server and not on your hard disk, Word can't query the driver and This makes it easy for IT to updateĮverybody at once with new driver versions, or different driver configurations.īut if you are not connected to your network (for instance, because you haveĪ laptop, or because your server has gone down) and if the driver is installed Server, and not installed on your hard disk. Microsoft network at work, you can use a printer driver that's located on a The printer driver will usually be installed on your hard disk. For most people, even if theĭefault printer is a network printer, this will not cause any problems, because When Word opens, it needs to query your default printer driver (the one shownĪs “Default” under Start + Settings + Printers). Installed on your hard disk, but that is set up as your default printer.

If it isn't a template corruption, it may be a corrupt registry key –Īnother possibility is that you have a network printer driver that is not.

If in doubt, move the files instead of renaming them.

The “View” tab of the dialog, deselect “Hide file extensions for known file Tools + Folder Options, or View + Options, in some versions of Windows) and on To do so, select View + Folder Options (or If you cannot see the file extensions (as in.

To find out where Word's Startup folder is, look under Tools + Options +.

Moving any files that are in Word's Startup.

Normal.dot) see the reference to switching their display on in ii) below. If you cannot see the file extensions (as in

For instance, try renaming Normal.dot to Normal.old – and make sure you.

Note that the normal template for Word 2007 is normal.dotx or normal.dotm You have opened a Word document within Internet Explorer, close IE too).

Try renaming your Normal template (with Word and Outlook closed – and if.

Startup path are probably corrupt, so the next steps to try are:

If that fixes it, either your Normal template or one of the files in Word's Any customisations you make while in this mode The /a switch is intended as a troubleshooting tool only, and you shouldn'tĬontinue to use it to start Word. Get an error message such as: “Cannot find the file ‘winword.exe/a’ or one of Note the space before the forward slash! If you miss out that space, you'll Screen, select Run, and type winword.exe /a. Still crashes: to do this, click the Start button in the bottom left of your The case, start Word without templates and add-ins loaded, to see whether it

It is most likely to be due to template corruption. Temporary files can impair the future smooth running of the application and Locations depending which global template add-ins you have installed. In the Office Startup folder, and at other The crash will have left a selection of temporary files in the currentĭocument folder for any document that was open at the time, Still running, and if there are, end those processes. The running processes to ensure that there are no stalled instances of Word

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All other UserForm controls disabled after displaying a message boxĪrticle contributed by Graham Mayor The first step whenever Word crashes.Ĭlose Outlook and press CTRL+ALT+DEL to open the Windows Task Manager.

Toolbars not showing when automating Word.

Paragraph borders lost when printing from a VBA macro.

When users starts Word they activate a previously created instance.

Word 2000 can't be made visible, and/or doesn't trigger a Close Event.

Problem running a UserForm from an Autoexec macro.

“Undefined Variable” – Mid, Left, Right not working.

“Microsoft Forms: Could not load an object”.

“Invalid Page Fault” when running a macro.

Problems with StyleRef fields and language-specific style names.

Mail merge field names have an underscore appended to them.

Table cells with shading show white areasįloating graphics don't show up in Edit Links.

Top of the page is unaccountably indented

Cross-references show incorrect content or wrong numbersĪpplied to one paragraph affects the entire document.

Toolbar missing on add-ins tab in the Ribbon.

AutoCorrect Options missing when right-clicking.

Word shows only one or two fonts in its font list.

Frequently encountered problems with fonts.

Switching view hides the currently selected heading.

Word insists on asking “Open as read-only?”.

My drop-down menus crawl down very slowly.

Word for mac keeps opening in older version