Office: mac crashes

[The Physicist]

Anyone else have persistent crashes in Office:mac when working with large files? It has crashed twice on me this week. The only two programs to have crashed on my mac are MSN Messenger:mac and Office:mac - coincidence? I think not...

 

[happyg1]

Office:mac froze up on me everytime that I used it. All of my files are big. It would say that my disk was full(RIGHT...I have 139 gigs free), that I needed to save it to another disk. I gave up on it, uninstalled it and went to back Tex. Now that's not running properly, either. I can't get Ghostscript installed.

I lost a big part of 3 HUGE files with office mac when it froze....very annoying.

 

[Zoolook]

If you're using Office 2004 on an Intel Mac, then huge files take ages to load.

 

[The Physicist]

Maybe I should have said 2008 (sorry!). Happy - I had a similar problem at work when using documents that had embedded objects (such as excel spreadsheets) in them.

 

[happyg1]

My embedded object swere from microsoft equation editor. i don't understand WHY office thought that my disk was full. I contacted tech support for Office and got no real answers. So I just ditched it.

Very frustrating.

If anyone knows how to install Ghostscript, I'd like some help there.

 

[bozzo]

Office Mac Crashes

Hi Physicist,

We have been having exactly the same problems. When we have tried to modify an embedded Excel document in a Word document Word crashes. Also have the same problem with word only documents. E.g. open word and you get a new document. Click on "View", click on "Formatting Palette". Type in a word, highlight the word you have just typed and then select the font colour icon (it's a capital A with a red bar underneath), voila!! Word crashes. Now a one word document is hardly a large document.

I am in the process of trying to sort this out with Microsoft tech support. Will let you know if anything results.

 

[bozzo]

Physicist

A possible solution. This has resolved the issues above for me

For Word...click on the following:

Go>Home > Library > Preferences > com.microsoft.word.plist ( trash)
Go>Home > Library > Preferences > microsoft > com.word.prefs.plist (trash)

Make sure to empty trash. Restart computer. Be careful to select word.plists as excel, entourage, etc all have plists as well.

I received this solution from Msoft tech support and it seems to have worked.

Regards
Bozzo

 

[mac57]

NeoOffice is perhaps a better solution. It is also free. NeoOffice is compatible with all popular MS-Office file formats, and while it is not a 100% clone, if you are comfortable with MS-Office, you will feel right at home in NeoOffice. NeoOffice is the only office suite I have loaded on my new MBP.

 

[hagios1972]

NeoOffice is perhaps a better solution. It is also free. NeoOffice is compatible with all popular MS-Office file formats, and while it is not a 100% clone, if you are comfortable with MS-Office, you will feel right at home in NeoOffice. NeoOffice is the only office suite I have loaded on my new MBP.

do you have to install the patch as well?

 

[christm]

Im running office 2008 and its ok, although it has crashed on me once. But thats in 5 months. Ish. SO not toooo bad.

 

[cuhnool]

do you have to install the patch as well?

I will be

 

[mfmurphy]

1st time: experiencing Office 2004 Word crashes - help / suggestions

I have never experienced crashes in Word before! This comes as a great surprise to me given the stability of MS Word over the years. The problem is as follows: I am writing a document (a transcription of an audio file) and using Tables and Borders. In particular, I use the "outside border" and "shading" options to note, to the right of the document, the time segments associated with the the interview that I am transcribing. Something like this:

52m 45s

but with a border and slight shading. After a while, the document crashes. I have also experienced a crash when using the Formatting Palette and, in particular, the "highlighting" option, when I want to color a segment of a document that I intend to edit and / or re-work.

Should I look for a virus or bug or have other users experienced a similar problem?

 

[Heart/Mac]

I've had no problem with Microsoft Office:Mac. And I've used both 2004 and 2008 with my Mac. Well, I guess MSN messenger logged out on me once. But that's it. I've had no problem with the other 4 apps.

 

[MadChild]

I used to have this problem until Microsoft released an Update for office:mac that helped stop annoying crashes

 

[harryb2448]

You have not provided model etc. If you have a new Mac with office 2008 Trial Version, make sure it is uninstalled before installing the full version and take it you have downloaded the 180MB 12.1.0 update?

 

[Tauron]

Anyone else have persistent crashes in Office:mac when working with large files? It has crashed twice on me this week. The only two programs to have crashed on my mac are MSN Messenger:mac and Office:mac - coincidence? I think not...

The only way to prevent crashed because of Microsoft programs is to uninstall them. Trust me, just do it and you will be much happier.

 

[harryb2448]

Suggest you try bozzo's suggestion. Office 2008 for Macintosh 'The Missing Manual' advises going to Home>Library>Preferences>Microsoft>Office 2008 and drag to the desktop Microsoft Office 2008 Settings.plist and any other Preferences files causing troubles, such as Word. Restart and a new set of fresh, clean files are made.

If that solves your problem then trash the old files from the desktop.