Re: Serious Word Document Problems - Please, PLEASE Help! :(

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JosypenkoMJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
I normally don't even want to think about and deal with the nonsense of
what Word is doing when it is corrupted (corrupt files here, there,


I normally "don't want to think about and deal with the nonsense of what Word is doing" either :-) Unfortunately, if you want to use it successfully, you will have to learn some things about it...

I believe that what JE McGimpsey was inferring (and I agree with) was that "Word" is not corrupted. Some files that it uses (e.g., user preferences) have been corrupted and through Word's normal everyday buggy unstable behavior, it chokes to death when it tries to open such a file.


everywhere). It is far easier to treat it as any corrupted program and
simply reinstall it (although from what you said MS has changed the


Because of the way OS X stores files, it is very unlikely that the application software itself is corrupted. The need for reinstalling programs of any sort due to corrupted applications the way you would in Windows or even early days Mac OS programs is pretty rare. In fact, doing so with many applications can actually introduce problems if it is not done exactly correct taking into account the correct removal of any earlier installs (Office for Mac is one of them). That is why installers are used


word install to mean partial install - no preferences. Not many these
days know how to call a spade a spade).


Installs, in general, do NOT diddle with your preference files. If they did, everytime someone did an upgrade, they would have to reset absolutely everything which many people would object to (especially since it could include having to reconfigure all the styles and such in their Normal file). Especially on a multi-user system like OS X where you could conceptually have 40 different users all with their own preferences set up. Is an install supposed to seek out and destroy the preferences of everyone on the system? In general, no UNIX based application would ever do this as it violates the separation of user configurables and system configurables.


days know how to call a spade a spade). I don't even install - I just
recopy all the Word files from a backup.


Depending on how you go about this, it could be the worse possible thing to do. Running a full recover on the entire system may be OK. Copying from a backup can change permissions and ownerships which can also create a nest of trouble.



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