Microsoft Word Not Responding: Here’s Some Help!

Are you sick of looking at the “Microsoft word not responding” error? Well, there may be several reasons behind the same – so here’s an insight to the problem and its possible remedies.

The frequent MS Word users must have come across the disgusting error message “Microsoft Word not responding”, and seen the hour glass several times, as MS Word gets hanged and when you try to click close button, it crashes off.

Sure thing, MS Word (All versions after 2000) is extremely stable, but many a times, the third party applications may be the culprit behind unexpected crashing of MS word.

Therefore, the very first thing that you should do is to identify any add-on third party app that you might be using in sync with MS Word. To do so, you can start Word in safe mode and then turn off these third party add-ons, and reboot your system to check the outcome.

Here’s how you can start MS Office suite in user-initiated safe mode –

Click Start >> point to All Programs >> Microsoft Office >> Press and hold the CTRL key >> click on MS Word (or any Microsoft Office program that you want to run).

Once you’re done with disabling the third party add-ons, you can exit the program to stop User-Initiated Safe mode, and you’re good to proceed normally.

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